The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Kenyon CBE Klappentext The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries. This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life. The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach , by Nicholas Kenyon, is a superb new addition to the highly successful Faber Pocket Guides - all the essentials about one the greatest composers in history. Zusammenfassung A pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Kenyon, Sir Nicholas Kenyon
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.03.2011
• EAN: 9780571233274
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23327-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Composers; Musicology; Orchestras; Pocket Guides