WorkJohann Nikolaus Forkel

A Complete History of Music

Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749–1818) · 1776

Mentioned

Documented 1846

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p73

mentioned

“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.”

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