Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151006489
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Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,43 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 : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674059269
More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.
Author : Klaus Eidam
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In this new biography, Eidam brings the icon of baroque music into focus as never before. Through painstaking research and careful evaluation of existing documents, he debunks a number of myths that have surrounded Bach in the 250 years since his death. Illustrations.
Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 20,48 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 : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139461192
Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents' sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.
Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1612289347
For more than 100 years now, the name of Johann Sebastian Bach has been considered among the most highly regarded of all composers. The “holy cantor” church musician has been written about in many books. So, it might be difficult for some of us to imagine, but for several generations after his death, Bach had been forgotten. What remained of his vast number of works gathered dust in private collections or distant archives. Many of his works were discarded; in fact, some found their way to a butcher shop and are reported to have been used as wrapping paper. It took a twenty-year-old musician, who would become as well known as Bach, to bring about an interest in his works. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion, and revived interest in the long-forgotten composer. The genius of Bach was finally recognized by the world. In this delightful story, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time. Combining music, history, and culture with biography, this story is as entertaining as it is educational—a musical journey back through time.
Author : Hans T David
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1999-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393319569
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521533744
Bach, like Shakespeare, is known largely by his works, exceptional in quantity as well as quality, and only a few original documents convey any idea of his life and character. Peter Williams's thoroughly new look at Bach's biography asks many questions about the so-called evidence. What was he like as a young man, as a father, as an ageing church servant? What were his preoccupations? What music did he know and how did he compose and perform such an amazing amount of music? Was he a disappointed man? Reading the available documentation critically, especially from the viewpoint of a performer, and going back to the first substantial 'biography' of Bach, namely his Obituary, Williams suggests new interpretations of the composer's life and his work. In addition, he asks if our understanding of Bach has been hindered by the unremitting deference displayed towards him since his death.
Author : Peter Schickele
Publisher : Random House
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0307769623
What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "A musical blight" "A one-man plague" "History's most justifiably neglected composer" "The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music" In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- composer in the history of music: P.D.Q. Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.
