Based on ten years of research and containing the first-ever chronology of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions, Julian Shuckburgh’s vivid biography is an impassioned, controversial, and personal portrait of the man who composed some of the most sublime music ever written, in spite of—or perhaps because of—a life blighted by tragedy.

Based on ten years of research and containing the first-ever chronology of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions, Julian Shuckburgh’s vivid biography is an impassioned, controversial, and personal portrait of the man who composed some of the most sublime music ever written, in spite of—or perhaps because of—a life blighted by tragedy.