ABSTRACT
Bach studies have their origin in the activities of his sons and pupils, such as Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philip Emanuel in Dresden, Halle, Berlin and Hamburg, and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, Lorenz Christoph Mizler, Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Johann Christian Kittel, among others, in Leipzig, Berlin, Erfurt, etc. These in turn influenced others, such as: Baron van Swieten in vienna who drew around him an influential circle of musicians-including Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven-to perform and discuss the music of Bach; A. F. C. Kollmann in London who promoted and published Bach’s keyboard music and encouraged others, such as Samuel Wesley, Karl Friedrich Horn, and Benjamin Jacob, to study, perform and publish Bach’s music; and Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the pioneering music historian and bibliographer of Göttingen University, who brought a systematic aesthetic and analytic approach to the music of Bach, which he saw as the climax of European music.
