The New Bach Reader

Informationen zum Autor Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791 , winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence. Zusammenfassung "Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma

Product details

• Authors: Hans T David, Hans T. David, Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Mendel Arthur, Christoph Wolff, Christoph (Harvard University) Wolff
• Assisted by: Hans T. David (Editor), Arthur Mendel (Editor), Christoph Wolff (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.1999
• EAN: 9780393319569
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31956-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, Germany, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Biography / Autobiography, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, baroque, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)