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Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment James R Gaines on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany Evening in the Palace of Reason Being Geniuses Together Evening in the Palace of Reason Being Geniuses Together He adopts the rather slow form of a double biography crosscutting for more than 200 pages before returning to the evening of May 7 1747 when Frederick scanned a list of foreign visitors to Potsdam and agitatedly announced to his musicians Gentlemen Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment The king had prepared a cruel practical joke for his honored guest asking him to improvise a sixpart fugue on a theme so fiendishly difficult some believe only Bachs son could have devised it Bach left the court fuming Review Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R Gaines Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James R Gaines 352pp Fourth Estate £1599 Evening in the Palace of Reason Classical Net Review Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Fortunately there is an historical point of facetoface contact between the two – exactly one evening when Frederick summoned a coachlagged Bach to his Potsdam palace and presented him with the challenge of improvising a threepart fugue on a particularly unpromising subject EVENING IN THE PALACE OF REASON Bach Meets Frederick the EVENING IN THE PALACE OF REASON Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment James R Gaines Author Fourth Estate 2395 352p ISBN 9780007156580 Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Cantatas Website Just in case someone on the list has missed this book Paul is referring to Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James Gaines Its a dual intellectual musical political history of Prussias evil genuius Frederick the Great and JSB Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment In one corner a godless young warrior Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopherking’ the It Boy of the Enlightenment In the other a devout if badtempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music a scorned genius in his last years Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Evening in the Palace of Reason Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Set at the tipping point between the ancient and modern world Evening in the Palace of Reason captures the tumult of the eighteenth century the legacy of the Reformation and the birth of the Enlightenment in this extraordinary tale of two men
