On Jun 19, 2011, at 9:41 AM, be...@interlog.com wrote: > > Is anyone aware of any good articles about Bach as an improviser - > contemporary commentary, modern analyses of toccatas/fantasias, etc?
Most of the contemporary accounts are in The Bach Reader, some of them in the "Bach as Seen by His Contemporaries" chapter, some in the obituary written by Agricola and CPE Bach, and some in Forkel's biography, which are sections four through six in the (old) edition I have. I'd start with "improvisation" in the index. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
