The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through
a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
In "Reinventing Bach," his remarkable second book, Paul Elie
tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made
Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a
universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that
music figures into our lives.
As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the
technological frontier--restoring organs, inventing instruments,
and perfecting the tuning system still in use today. Two centuries
later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of
breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's music the sound of
modern transcendence. The sainted organist Albert Schweitzer played
to a mobile recording unit set up at London's Church of All Hallows
in order to spread Bach's organ works to the world beyond the
churches. Pablo Casals, recording at Abbey Road Studios, made
Bach's cello suites existentialism for the living room; Leopold
Stokowski and Walt Disney, with "Fantasia," made Bach the sound of
children's playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike. Glenn Gould's
"Goldberg Variations" opened and closed the LP era and made Bach
the byword for postwar cool; and Yo-Yo Ma has brought Bach into the
digital present, where computers and smartphones put the sound of
Bach all around us. In this book we see these musicians and dozens
of others searching, experimenting, and collaborating with one
another in the service of Bach, who emerges as the very image of
the spiritualized, technically savvy artist.
"Reinventing Bach" is a gorgeously written story of music,
invention, and human passion--and a story with special relevance in
our time, for it shows that great things can happen when high art
meets new technology.
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