Chapter II

. in order to supplement Forkel at the weakest point of his narrative.

Readers of Spitta’s first volume probably will remember the effort to follow the ramifications of the Bach pedigree unaided by a genealogical Table. It is unfortunate that Spitta did not set out in that form the wealth of biographical material his pages contain. To supply the deficiency, and to illustrate Forkel’s first Chapter, a complete Genealogical Table is provided in Appendix VI., based mainly upon the biographical details scattered over Spitta’s pages.

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