Format:
xiv, 704 Seiten
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Notenbeispiele, Karten
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781107139251
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9781316504864
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1107139252
Content:
Life and works. Early years, 1685-1703: background, family, studies -- First appointments, 1703-1708: a young musician's activities and early works -- Weimar, 1708-1717: the gifted player at a ducal court -- Cèothen, 1717-1723: other opportunities for the maturing composer -- Leipzig, the first years: a cantor's life, his duties, cantatas, Passions, publications --Leipzig, the middle years: other activities -- Leipzig, the final years: a concentration on the language of music -- Observations on the life and works. What was said, what can be inferred -- An epilogue
Content:
J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book Peter Williams revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music. Reviewing all of Bach's music chronologically, Williams discusses the music, collection by collection, to reveal the development of Bach's interests and priorities. While a great deal has been written about the composer's vocal works, Williams gives the keyboard music its proper emphasis, revealing it as crucial to Bach's biography, as a young organist and a mature composer, as a performer in public and teacher in private, and as a profound thinker in the language of music.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Biografie
Author information:
Williams, Peter 1937-2016
Author information:
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
