Cantata No. 80 -- Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Cantata No. 80 -- Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1999-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457480645

"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," Cantata No. 80, by Johann Sebastian Bach, was composed in Leipzig, Germany for Reformation Day and was first performed between 1727 and 1731. It is based on the famous chorale of Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," or "A Mighty Fortress is Our God." German and English text.

Music and Monumentality

Music and Monumentality
Author: Alexander Rehding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-08-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199736650

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public.

Resilient Reformer

Resilient Reformer
Author: Timothy F. Lull
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506400256

This biography, begun by Timothy F. Lull prior to his death and capably finished by Derek Nelson, is marked for its fresh, winsome, and invigorating styleÑone undoubtedly shaped by years spent in undergraduate and seminary classrooms.Ê Ê In this telling, Luther is an energetic, resilient actor, driven by very human strengths and failings, always wishing to do right by his understanding of God and the witness of the Scriptures.Ê Ê At times humorous, always realistic, and appropriately critical when necessary, Lull and Nelson tell the story of an amazing, unforgettable life.