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In Bach’s Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters, renowned Bach scholar Russell Stinson examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, and Elgar – engaged with the musical legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach.

CONTENTS

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Introduction
1. Felix Mendelssohn’s Reception of Bach’s Organ Works: New Evidence from the Samtliche Briefe
2. New Light on Robert Schumann’s Bach Reception
3. Bach in Bayreuth: Richard Wagner and the Well-Tempered Clavier
4. Edward Elgar Reads Albert Schweitzer: A Case of Negative Bach Reception
Literature Cited
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