J.C. Bach

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on J.C. Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. The selected articles represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years, including one article published as recently as 2015. The introduction provides a survey of J.C. Bach’s career and an overview of recent literature; the collection includes English translations of two articles first published in German.

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. J.C. Bach had a cosmopolitan career, beginning in Berlin as a pupil of his half-brother, C.P.E. Bach, then a sojourn to Italy where he studied with Padre Martini in Bologna; after making his successful debut with operas for Turin and Naples he moved to London, where he became a leading composer and impresario. The articles selected for this volume represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years. The introduction provides a survey of J.C. Bach’s career and an overview of recent literature. The collection includes English translations of two articles first published in German in the Bach-Jahrbuch, as well as one article published as recently as 2015. An appendix lists the complete contents of The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach, using the Warburton catalogue numbers.