ENGLISH

Bachs Musical Universe The Composer And His Work

By Christoph Wolff

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2020
ISBN
9780393651799, 9780393050714
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
60 MB (62393882 bytes)
Pages
\0
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2024-11-26 14:18:06

Description

A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art.In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff contextualizes his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions— from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B- Minor Mass.Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach's creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres, and centers on what the composer himself judiciously presented in carefully designed benchmark collections and individual works— all consequential to...

Similar books