Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Gaines JamesPaperback
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Gaines JamesPaperback In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the…
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Gaines JamesPaperback
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.Behind the pomp and flash, Prussia's Frederick the Great was a tormented man, son of an abusive king who forced him to watch as his best friend (probably his lover) was beheaded. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years.
A stirring In what may have been one of history's crueler practical jokes, Frederick challenged 'old Bach' to a musical duel, asking him to improvise a six-part fugue based on an impossibly intricate theme (possibly devised for him by Bach's own son).Bach left the court fuming, but in a fever of composition, he used the coded, alchemical language of counterpoint to write 'A Musical Offering' in response.
The Age of Reason