42 b/w illustrations.Īuthor Biography: Christoph Wolff, William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University, is co-author of The Bach Compendium, coieditor of Bach-Jahrbuch, and author of The New Grove Bach Family. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. The approach that Wolff takes in writing a Bach biography has two aims. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard in Bach biography.Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
Time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his
Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so Want to Read Rate it: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.27 avg. Now available in paperback, this engaging biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing-and sometimes imperfect-human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances gained in the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. Published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author and leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. Bach through countless performances and recordings, the composer himself continues to come across as the somewhat enigmatic figure depicted in a single, familiar portrait. Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician by Wolff, Christoph. Although we are acquainted with the music of J.
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