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Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151006489
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Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 12,50 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 : Klaus Eidam
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 27,75 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 : 40,31 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 : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,53 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 : Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Composers
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Author : Philipp Spitta
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017173994
Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,86 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 : John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780713996623
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the unfathomable composers in the history of music. This book explains the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects - and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Author : Gregory Wilbur
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781581824704
Johann Sebastian Bach was a musical genius, an intellectual giant and a gracious man. His achievement in the area of music is one of the greatest tours de force in history - on a par with or surpassing that of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Dante, Rembrandt, or Aquinas. Bach worked at a crucial time in history. He combated the ideas of the Enlightenment with its elevation of human reason as the ultimate authority of everything. His struggles, musically and professionally, are those of a man seeking to maintain a high view of worship, academics, and the grounding of all life on the Word of God. As a man valiant in his convictions, he stood against the trends and fashions of his day and succeeded as a witness of the Gospel to the generations who followed him. While his name conjures many images, musical phrases, and half-remembered stories, the life of this colossal genius provides practical lessons in leadership for both artists and anyone who strives to serve others with excellence and integrity.