The English Bach awakening : knowledge of J.S. Bach and his music in England, 1750-1830

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The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called 'the English Bach revival', but that is a misnomer. 'Revival' implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been made in England during his lifetime (1685-1750). The dawn of the English Bach awakening manifested in sources of the "48" / Yo Tomita -- The English translations of Forkel's Life of Bach / Michael Kassler -- Kollmann's proof of the regularity of Bach's Chromatic fantasy / Michael Kassler -- Samuel Wesley and the English Bach awakening / Philip Olleson -- The Bachists of 1810 : subscribers to the Wesley/Horn edition of the "48" / Michael Kassler -- Pursuit of perfection : stages of revision of the Wesley/Horn "48" / Yo Tomita -- Samuel Wesley as analyst of Bach's fugues / Yo Tomita -- Portraits of Bach in England before 1830 / Michael Kassler -- Appendix : The Horn/Wesley edition of Bach's "Trio" sonatas / Michael Kassler.