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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
by James R. Gaines (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Really wonderful, 5 Jan 2005
This review is from: Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
This is a really terrific book about the 18th century, the Enlightenment, Bach, Frederick, and the whole conflict (which seems appropriate right now, at least if you're looking at the States) between Faith and Reason. The author has worked hard to make all the complex subjects involved not only very easy to grasp but actually gripping,and it's one of the most inspiring and educational books I've come across in a long time. Certainly anybody interested in Bach, whose biographies have never really done it for me, should buy this book: It makes him come alive. But more broadly, anybody interested in the history of ideas, music, Europe in the 18th century, or the world we live in today should read this book. I haven't come across a book this good in a very long time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly worth reading...., 12 Jan 2005
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This review is from: Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
I have been playing Bach all my life, I have read everything about him, and I have never come across a book that brought him so vividly alive. I honestly never knew who he was before this book. I never quite understood the forces that motivated him, why he wrote music as moving as it was, how he could have maintained such integrity in such adverse circumstances (his own sons were against him!), why he was so dismissed during his life. Now I understand that, and so much more. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It changed my view of Bach and in a way my view of why the world we live in is the way it is.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Baroque, 15 April 2006
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A most impressive survey and an exciting story packed with information on the times. This is the most informative and engaging book on the subject I have read to date, and it has a super bibilography and discography to boot.
James Gaines has a style which avoids the dry and lifeless without becoming superficial and lightweight.
I reccommend it to anyone wanting to know more and to fill in gaps which many, more academic, books do not cover
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2.0 out of 5 stars Goodies and baddies
I found this book generally irritating and very disappointing. As a fan of Bach, the author seeks to praise him at the expense of others. Read more
Published on 7 April 2005 by L. H. Barker

5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightenment
Don't know much about history and less about music, but this book had me up late reading about both. Read more
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