BACH, THE PATRIARCH The genealogy of the Bachs shows them to have been in the habit of marrying at least two or three times apiece, and of being very prolific.

The Von Webers are the most numerous musical dynasty after the Bachs.

There were more than twenty-five Bachs, who made themselves names as makers of harmony, and they earned themselves almost as great names as family makers; all except Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, who was as lacking in virtue as he was abundant in virtuosity.

So much for the Bachs.

There have been the home-keeping breeders of children, and contentment, such as Willaert, Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, the Bachs, Gluck, Piccinni, Weber, Mendelssohn, and Schumann; and Bizet, whose wife said after his death, that there was not a moment of their six years' honeymoon she could regret or would not re-live.

J. S. Bach's Chorfuge; ein Beitrag zur Kompositionstechnik Bachs.

J. S. Bach's Chorfuge; ein Beitrag zur Kompositionstechnik Bachs.

He had been reared in the severe Saxon school of the Bachs, and before coming to Bonn had had much experience as music director of an operatic company.