Step into the classroom with Christoph Wolff
Johann Sebastian Bach holds a singular position in the history
of music. A uniquely gifted musician, he combined outstanding
performing virtuosity with supreme creative powers and remarkable
intellectual discipline. More than two centuries after his
lifetime, Bach's work continues to set musical standards.
The noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers in this book new
perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.
Uncovering important historical evidence, the author demonstrates
significant influences on Bach's artistic development and brings
fresh insight on his work habits, compositional intent, and the
musical traditions that shaped Bach's thought. Wolff reveals a
composer devoted to an ambitious and highly individual creative
approach, one characterized by constant self-criticism and
self-challenge, the absorption of new skills and techniques, and
the rethinking of riches from the musical past.
Readers will find illuminating analyses of some of Bach's
greatest music, including the B Minor Mass, important cantatas,
keyboard and chamber compositions, the Musical Offering, and the
Art of Fugue. Discussion of how these pieces "work" will be helpful
to performers--singers, players, conductors--and to everyone
interested in exploring the conceptual and contextual aspects of
Bach's music. All readers will find especially interesting those
essays in which Wolff elaborates on his celebrated discoveries of
previously unknown works: notably the fourteen "Goldberg" canons
and a collection of thirty-three chorale preludes.
Representing twenty-five years of scholarship, these
essays--half of which appear here in English forthe first
time--have established Christoph Wolff as one of the world's
preeminent authorities on J. S. Bach. All students, performers, and
lovers of Bach's music will find this an engaging and enlightening
book.
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