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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of En电子书

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作       者：James Gaines

出  版  社：Harper Perennial

出版时间：2014-07-24

字       数：52.3万

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In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age. Behind the pomp and flash, Prussia's Frederick the Great was a tormented man, son of an abusive king who forced him to watch as his best friend (probably his lover) was beheaded. In what may have been one of history's crueler practical jokes, Frederick challenged 'old Bach' to a musical duel, asking him to improvise a six-part fugue based on an impossibly intricate theme (possibly devised for him by Bach's own son). Bach left the court fuming, but in a fever of composition, he used the coded, alchemical language of counterpoint to write 'A Musical Offering' in response. A stirring declaration of faith, it represented 'as stark a rebuke of his beliefs and world view as an absolute monarch has ever received,' Gaines writes. It is also one of the great works of art in the history of music. Set at the tipping point between the ancient and the modern world, the triumphant story of Bach's victory expands to take in the tumult of the eighteenth century: the legacy of the Reformation, wars and conquest, the birth of the Enlightenment. Brimming with originality and wit, 'Evening in the Palace of Reason' is history of the best kind - intimate in scale and broad in its vision.
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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Map

I: Theme for a Pas De Deux

II: Biography of a Temperament

III: The Hohenzollern Real Estate Company

IV: A Small, Unready Alchemist

V: Giants, Spies, and the Lash: Life with “FATTY”

VI: The Sharp Edges of Genius

VII: Witness to an Execution

VIII: Song of the Endlessly Orbiting Spheres

IX: A Changeling Among the Swans

X: The Artist in a Paintby-Numbers World

XI: War and Peace and a Mechanical Duck

XII: The Night of a Musical Offering

XIII: Afterlives: An Epilogue

P.S. Ideas, Interviews & Features …

About the Author

A Passion for Thought

Life at a Glance

A Writing Life

Top Ten Books About Back

About the Book

How I Came to Write This Book

Read On

Have You Read?

If You Loved This, You Might Like …

Find Out More

Notes on Sources

A Selected Bibliography

A Very Selective Discography

A Glossary of Musical Terms

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

By the Same Author

About the Publisher

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