Books Details
Author : Christoph Wolff Pages : 432 pages Publisher : W. W. Norton
Company Language : ISBN-10 : 0393050718 ISBN-13 : 9780393050714
Books Descriptions
Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian
Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was
notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he
methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections.
These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent,
produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as
paradigms of Bach?s musical art.In this companion volume to his Pulitzer
Prize?finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician,
leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous
subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer?s own rich selection of
collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and
instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach?s Musical
Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of
compositions?from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello
solos, and Brandenburg
