Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work

Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work
Author: Johann Forkel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre:
ISBN:

Book Excerpt: scuss the first English version of Forkel's monograph, published in 1820, with the following title-page:LIFE OF JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH; with a Critical View of his Compositions. By J. N. Forkel, Author of The Complete History of Music, etc., etc. Translated from the German. London: Printed for T. Boosey and Co., Holles-Street, Cavendish-Square. 1820.The book was published in February 1820; it was announced, with a slightly differently worded title-page, in the New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register for March 1820 (p. 341), and the Scots Magazine for the same month ( vol. lxxxv. p. 263). The New Monthly states the price as 5s., the Quarterly Review (vol. xxiii. p. 281) as 6s. The book contains xi+116+3 pages of Music Figures, crown octavo, bound in dark unlettered cloth. It has neither Introduction, notes (other than Forkel's), nor indication of the translator's identity. Much of the translation is so bad as to suggest grave doubts of the translator's comprRead More

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Martin Geck
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780151006489

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Bach

Bach
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674059269

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780199248841

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.

Sebastian

Sebastian
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152006297

Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.

The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach

The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Raymond Erickson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1574671669

(Amadeus). The Worlds of J.S. Bach offers both traditional and new perspectives on the life and work of the man who is arguably the central figure in the Western musical tradition. It appears at a time when, because of the fall of the Iron Curtain, extraordinary new discoveries are being made about Bach and his family at an increasing rate thus this book is able to incorporate important information and images not available even in the recent anniversary year of 2000. After making the case for the universality of Bach's art as an epitome of Western civilization, The Worlds of J.S. Bach considers in broad terms the composer's social, political, and artistic environment, its influence on him, and his interaction with it. Renowned specialists in history, religion, architecture, literature, theater, and dance offer the perspectives of these disciplines as they relate to Bach's milieu, while leading Bach specialists from both the U.S. and Germany focus on the man himself. The book is an outgrowth of the "celebrated" ( Boston Globe ) multidisciplinary Academies sponsored by the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Becoming Bach

Becoming Bach
Author: Thomas Leonard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1626722862

Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.

Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work

Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0393651797

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre:
ISBN:

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and later translated by, among others, Charles Sanford Terry.When Forkel published his Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Für patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst in 1802 it was the first biography on the composer published as a separate book. Forkel dedicated the work to Gottfried van Swieten. Van Swieten was an early Bach adept, for instance making Mozart familiar with the baroque composer.