The English Bach Awakening

The English Bach Awakening
Author: Michael Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351544861

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called 'the English Bach revival', but that is a misnomer. 'Revival' implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been made in England during his lifetime (1685-1750). The book begins with a comprehensive chronology of the English Bach Awakening. Eight chapters follow, written by Dr Philip Olleson, Dr Yo Tomita and the editor, Michael Kassler, which treat particular parts of the Awakening and show how they developed. A focus of the book is the history of the manuscripts and the printed editions of Bach's '48' - The Well-tempered Clavier - in England at this time, and its culmination in the 'analysed' edition that Samuel Wesley and Charles Frederick Horn published in 1810-1813 and later revised. Wesley's multifaceted role in the Bach Awakening is detailed, as are the several efforts that were made to translate Forkel's biography of Bach into English. A chapter is devoted to A.F.C. Kollmann's endeavour to prove the regularity of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy, and the book concludes with a discussion of portraits of Bach in England before 1830.

The New Grove Bach Family

The New Grove Bach Family
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393303544

Traces the life and discusses the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and the other musician members of his family.

The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach Volume 1: 1695-1717

The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach Volume 1: 1695-1717
Author: Richard D. P. Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0198164408

This first of a two-volume study deals with the earlier part of Bach's career, and examines the output of his youth and its many external influences, before moving on to study the first great masterpieces in which Bach's own personal voice begins to emerge.

J. S. Bach as Organist

J. S. Bach as Organist
Author: George B. Stauffer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000-05-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253213860

" . . . a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies . . . every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." —Early Keyboard Journal " . . . a very perceptive and informative guide . . . " —Early Music " . . . this book is a must." —The American Organist " . . . invaluable and entertaining . . . " —American Music Teacher " . . . among the most important and accomplished studies on eighteenth-century performance. Its comprehensiveness, clarity, and scholarship make it indispensable." —Performance Practice Review In J. S. Bach as Organist, specialists from six countries explore Bach's relationship to his favorite instrument during all periods of his career. J. S. Bach as Organist is a book for scholars, performers, and students. Authoritative and wide-ranging.

J. S. Bach

J. S. Bach
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2007-02-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139461192

Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents' sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.

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.