Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152006297
Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151006489
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Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199248841
Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
Author : Thomas Leonard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1626722862
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
Author : Raymond Erickson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1574671669
(Amadeus). The Worlds of J.S. Bach offers both traditional and new perspectives on the life and work of the man who is arguably the central figure in the Western musical tradition. It appears at a time when, because of the fall of the Iron Curtain, extraordinary new discoveries are being made about Bach and his family at an increasing rate thus this book is able to incorporate important information and images not available even in the recent anniversary year of 2000. After making the case for the universality of Bach's art as an epitome of Western civilization, The Worlds of J.S. Bach considers in broad terms the composer's social, political, and artistic environment, its influence on him, and his interaction with it. Renowned specialists in history, religion, architecture, literature, theater, and dance offer the perspectives of these disciplines as they relate to Bach's milieu, while leading Bach specialists from both the U.S. and Germany focus on the man himself. The book is an outgrowth of the "celebrated" ( Boston Globe ) multidisciplinary Academies sponsored by the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author : Robert Lewis Marshall
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN :
The 16 essays collected here of two kinds: stylistic and historical inquiries, and studies of the original sources. The articles deal with the music and shed new light on the composer's life. Part 1 reconsiders Bach's historical position and assesses the cultural significance of his achievement; Parts 2, 3 and 4 draw upon the original sources to explore the compositional process, questions of authenticity and chronology, and controversial issues of performance practice.
Author : Andre Pirro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1442232919
The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach (L’Esthéthique de Jean-Sébastien Bach), by the celebrated French musicologist André Pirro (1869‒1943), was originally published in 1907 and reissued in 1973. It is offered here for the first time in English, as translated by Joe Armstrong. Pirro’s work is based primarily on an examination of the close relationships between language and music in Bach’s vocal works and provides us with an extensive and well-researched “lexicon” of the expressive resources of Bach and his contemporaries. Pirro’s study thus serves as a still sound basis for understanding and interpreting Bach’s instrumental works. Pirro’s engaging analysis that has informed and even moved discerning readers for more than a century. This translation introduces his work to a new audience of performers, music teachers and their students, composers, musicologists, and all who wish to have a greater understanding of the expressive import of Bach’s music.
Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393075958
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography.
Author : Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Composers
ISBN :
Author : Karl Geiringer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1040217400
When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many discoveries about Bach’s life and music that occurred in the postwar years created the need for a new interpretative study incorporating this research and this was the only book which incorporated the vast amount of material uncovered since 1950, the bicentennial of Bach’s death. The volume begins with a brief biography and is followed by an analysis of each major type of composition: vocal, organ, keyboard and instrumental music. In each section the author examines thoroughly many Bach compositions and evaluates them in relation to the rest of the composer’s work, as well as in relation to the music of his contemporaries. More than 70 music examples enable the reader to understand how Bach worked, the manner in which his genius developed and grew, and to see outstanding excerpts from his music in various stages of completion. An interesting aspect of research methods is revealed through an explanation of the detective work which has been done regarding handwriting, paper and watermarks in the original sources.
