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Bach: Essays on His Life and Music

Door Christoph Wolff

Categorie
Componisten
Boeknummer
#369552-XN4
Titel
Bach: Essays on His Life and Music
Auteur
Wolff, Christoph
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1991
ISBN10
0674059255
ISBN13
9780674059252
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original burgundy cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, family tree, musical charts, notes and postscripts, index, map
Samenvatting
The noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers in this book new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career. Uncovering important historical evidence, the author demonstrates significant influences on Bach's artistic development and brings insight on his work habits, compositional intent, and the musical traditions that shaped Bach's thought. Wolff reveals a composer devoted to an ambitious and highly individual creative approach, one characterized by constant self-criticism and self-challenge, the absorption of new skills and techniques, and the rethinking of riches from the musical past. Readers will find analyses of some of Bach's greatest music, including the B Minor Mass, important cantatas, keyboard and chamber compositions, the Musical Offering, and the Art of Fugue. Di... (Lees verder)scussion of how these pieces "work" will be helpful to performers--singers, players, conductors--and to everyone interested in exploring the conceptual and contextual aspects of Bach's music. All readers will find especially interesting those essays in which Wolff elaborates on his celebrated discoveries of previously unknown works: notably the fourteen "Goldberg" canons and a collection of thirty-three chorale preludes. --From publisher's description.
Pagina's
462
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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