page_title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach / 18th century
caption_attribution_description: Titelseite der Zeitschrift / Title page of the periodical.
context_page_description: The first major biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach, including those by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Philipp Spitta, were published in the 19th century. Many more were published in the 20th century by, among others, Albert Schweitzer, Charles Sanford Terry, Christoph Wolff and Klaus Eidam.
context_section_description: Little was published about Bach's life in the 18th century, his "Nekrolog" (obituary) being the most extended biographical note about the composer's life.
caption: Title page of the first volume of Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek [de] (1739). Its fourth part (first published in April 1738) contained an article defending Bach's art against the criticism Johann Adolph Scheibe had published in May 1737. The 1754 last volume of the Musikalische Bibliothek (IV, 1) contained Bach's obituary.
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