Author

Johann Nikolaus Forkel(1749–1818)

Johann Nikolaus Forkel is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Books
Documented: 1846

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedLife of Bach (translated from the German)Attested
“The life of Bach which I have before me, (translated from the German of J. N. Forkel, author also of the 'Complete History of Music,') is by far the best of any of these records.”
Papers on Literature and Art
Explicit statement 'The life of Bach which I have before me...' places the specific book physically in her hands while writing.

In Fuller’s words

“The following extract from the preface, gives an idea of the spirit in which the whole book is written. " How do I wish I were able to describe, according to its merit, the sublime genius of this first of all artists, whether German or foreign !”

Life of Bach · Lives of the Great Composers · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Johann Nikolaus Forkel

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Forkel in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p73

excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read

“The life of Bach which I have before me, (translated from the German of J. N. Forkel, author also of the "Complete History of Music,") is by far the best of any of these records.”

The same sentence also names A Complete History of Music. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Fuller explicitly identifies this as her source for Bach and rates it 'by far the best of any of these records.' She quotes from it extensively throughout the Bach section.

1846—

Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

analyzed · quoted · read

“The following extract from the preface, gives an idea of the spirit in which the whole book is written.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p251

Inferred Fuller quotes without naming the work — “The following extract from the preface, gives an idea of the spirit in which the whole book is written. " How do I wish I were able to describe, according to its merit, t…” — and the identification as Life of Bach rests on the quoted words.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p251; page given is to the 1869 reprint.