Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index
Bach and the Cosmos -- The Sayings of J. S. Bach -- Bach: Pro and Con -- Zimmermann's Coffee House -- All in the family -- The Hungarian Connection -- The Other Sebastians -- Postwar Music -- What Else Was New -- Bach's Lost Childhood -- Bach's Job Résumé -- Bach in Love -- Bach's Opus I -- Two Wives and Twenty Children -- Bach's Son-in-Law -- Bach and Handel -- The Third Man -- Bach in Jail -- Bach at the Table -- The Pedagogical Bach -- Bach Versus Ernesti -- The Great Organ Competition -- Bach's Instruments -- Bach as a Plagiarist -- Bach's Religion -- Bach and the Opera -- Bach and the Dance -- Bach and Women -- Bach Among the Aristocrats -- The Heart of the Fugue -- What Bach Read and Wrote -- The Medical Bach -- Bach's Burials -- Bach, Bismark, and the Biographers -- Life After Bach -- Bach and Mendelssohn -- Matthäus or Matthew? -- Mr. Wesley and Mr. Bach -- Bach and Schweitzer -- Bach in America -- The Bach Virtuosi -- Hyphenated Bach -- Updating Bach -- The Lost Bach -- P. D. Q.: The Prodigal Son -- Bach's Puntheon -- The Making of a Bach Specialist -- Bach in Literature -- Toward the 400th
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