Bach S Musical Universe The Composer And His Work

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393651799

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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work by Christoph Wolff Pdf

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a 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. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199248842

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Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff Pdf

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 : Philipp Spitta
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486274140

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Johann Sebastian Bach by Philipp Spitta Pdf

This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873–80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310208068

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Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh Pdf

This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674059263

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Bach by Christoph Wolff Pdf

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 : Philipp Spitta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044041168220

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Johann Sebastian Bach, His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 by Philipp Spitta Pdf

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780679728054

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The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford Pdf

The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features: -- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times; -- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement; -- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds; -- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library. Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.

Author : Clara Bell,Philipp Spitta,Novello and Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1010232827

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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 by Clara Bell,Philipp Spitta,Novello and Company Pdf

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Author : John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846147210

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Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner Pdf

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during the Second World War. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, which explains in wonderful detail 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. Gardiner's background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinising the music, and watching for those instances when Bach's personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner's aim is 'to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.' It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists. SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER is one of the world's leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world's great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He lives and farms in Dorset.

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393075953

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff Pdf

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 : Clemency Burton-Hill
Publisher : Headline Home
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781472251831

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YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill Pdf

As featured in the Telegraph and on Radio 4's Today programme. 'A magnificent treasury . . . a fascinating tour de force.' Observer 'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie Redmayne Classical music for everyone - an inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the present day, written by award-winning violinist and BBC Radio 3 presenter Clemency Burton-Hill. Have you ever heard a piece of music so beautiful it stops you in your tracks? Or wanted to discover more about classical music but had no idea where to begin? Year of Wonder is a unique celebration of classical music by an author who wants to share its diverse wonders with others and to encourage a love for this genre in all readers, whether complete novices or lifetime enthusiasts. Clemency chooses one piece of music for each day of the year, with a short explanation about the composer to put it into context, and brings the music alive in a modern and playful way, while also extolling the positive mindfulness element of giving yourself some time every day to listen to something uplifting or beautiful. Thoughtfully curated and expertly researched, this is a book of classical music to keep you company: whoever you are, wherever you're from. 'The only requirements for enjoying classical music are open ears and an open mind.' Clemency Burton-Hill Playlists are available on most streaming music platforms including Apple Music.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Antoine Volodine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803246722

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Minor Angels by Antoine Volodine Pdf

In a postcataclysmic world, a group of old crones who oppose the forces of capitalism as they reestablish themselves creates an avenging grandson out of rags, who, instead of crushing capitalism, finds himself seduced by its charms.

Author : Peter Schickele
Publisher : Random House
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307769626

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Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach by Peter Schickele Pdf

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.

Author : Hans T David,Hans Theodore David,Mendel,Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393319563

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New Bach Reader by Hans T David,Hans Theodore David,Mendel,Christoph Wolff Pdf

'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.