The Temple of Fame and Friendship

This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son.   One of the most celebrated German composers of the eighteenth century, C. P. E. Bach spent decades assembling an extensive portrait collection of some four hundred music-related items—from oil paintings to engraved prints. The collection was dispersed after Bach’s death in 1788, but with Annette Richards’s painstaking reconstruction, the portraits once again present a vivid panorama of