Author: Hans T David
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
New Bach Reader
Author: Hans T David
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
The New Bach Reader
Author: Hans Theodore David
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199248841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199248841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
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.
Reinventing Bach
Author: Paul Elie
Publisher: Union Books
ISBN: 1908526416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
Publisher: Union Books
ISBN: 1908526416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
The True Life Of J.S. Bach
Author: Klaus Eidam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
Bach
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674059269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674059269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Bach
Author: Malcolm Boyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
As the world this year notes the 250th anniversary of the great composer's death, this new edition of a widely acclaimed study alternates biographical chapters with commentary on Bach's works to demonstrate how the circumstances of his life helped shape his music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
As the world this year notes the 250th anniversary of the great composer's death, this new edition of a widely acclaimed study alternates biographical chapters with commentary on Bach's works to demonstrate how the circumstances of his life helped shape his music.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Martin Geck
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151006489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151006489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Little Bach Book
Author: David J Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692878415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692878415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.