Accompanist to Frederick the Great and an eminent theorist, the second son of JS Bach was also a composer of rare inventiveness and beauty, as George Pratt explains Dr. Charles Burney, the distinguished music historian, undertook two tours of […]
1 Virginal (1594) This small keyboard instrument for domestic music-making was placed on a table. This richly decorated Venetian example, made by Giovanni Baffo, once belonged to England’s Queen Elizabeth I. 2 Virginal (1672) The virginal’s strings run at right […]