Bach's Musical Universe

In this companion volume to Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff contextualises his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions.

Unlike any previous study, this book details Bach's creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres, and centres on what the composer himself judiciously presented in carefully designed benchmark collections and individual works-all consequential to Bach's musical art. 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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chirstoph Wolff, Christoph Wolff, Christoph (Harvard University) Wolff
• Editore: Norton and Co Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780393050714
• ISBN: 978-0-393-05071-4
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Monografie; Klassik, Barock, Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Musik: Musizieren, Techniken, Anleitungen, Komponisten und Songwriter, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, Musikunterricht, Orchester, Musikerziehung, Instrumentenunterricht, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Musik / Musiklehre, Musiktheorie, Wissenschaft, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Klassik (Musik), MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition, art of fugue; b-minor mass; baroque; brandenburg concertos; cello; classical music; composition; creative process; goldberg variations; johann sebastian; music history; oeuvre; polyphonic; st. matthew passion; violin; well-tempered clavier, baroque, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Western "classical" music