Evening in the palace of reason : Bach meets Frederick the Great in the age of enlightenment
Chronicles the encounter between the young triumphant warrior-king Frederick II of Prussia, poster-boy of the Enlightenment, and the old, devoutly Lutheran, bad-tempered composer of outmoded music, Johann Sebastian Bach, when Frederick summoned him from Leipzig to Berlin to play for him, and set the composer a difficult challenge which resulted in Bach's masterful Musical offering
Print Book, English, ©2005
1st ed
HarperCollins, New York, ©2005