The Life Of Bach

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674059269
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach written by Christoph Wolff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151006489
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach written by Martin Geck and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152006297
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sebastian written by Jeanette Winter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461192
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. S. Bach written by Peter Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents' sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.

Author : Tom Leonard
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 125015443X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Bach written by Tom Leonard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Johann Sebastian there was always music. His family had been musicians, or bachs as they were called in Germany, for 200 years. He always wanted to be a bach. As he grew, he saw patterns in everything. Patterns he would turn into melodies and song, eventually growing into one of the most important and celebrated musical composers of all time. This is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Author : Klaus Eidam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Life Of J.S. Bach written by Klaus Eidam and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new biography, Eidam brings the icon of baroque music into focus as never before. Through painstaking research and careful evaluation of existing documents, he debunks a number of myths that have surrounded Bach in the 250 years since his death. Illustrations.

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199248841
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach written by Christoph Wolff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.

Author : Peter Schickele
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307769623
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach written by Peter Schickele and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "A musical blight" "A one-man plague" "History's most justifiably neglected composer" "The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music" In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- composer in the history of music: P.D.Q. Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533744
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Bach written by Peter Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach, like Shakespeare, is known largely by his works, exceptional in quantity as well as quality, and only a few original documents convey any idea of his life and character. Peter Williams's thoroughly new look at Bach's biography asks many questions about the so-called evidence. What was he like as a young man, as a father, as an ageing church servant? What were his preoccupations? What music did he know and how did he compose and perform such an amazing amount of music? Was he a disappointed man? Reading the available documentation critically, especially from the viewpoint of a performer, and going back to the first substantial 'biography' of Bach, namely his Obituary, Williams suggests new interpretations of the composer's life and his work. In addition, he asks if our understanding of Bach has been hindered by the unremitting deference displayed towards him since his death.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612289347
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 100 years now, the name of Johann Sebastian Bach has been considered among the most highly regarded of all composers. The “holy cantor” church musician has been written about in many books. So, it might be difficult for some of us to imagine, but for several generations after his death, Bach had been forgotten. What remained of his vast number of works gathered dust in private collections or distant archives. Many of his works were discarded; in fact, some found their way to a butcher shop and are reported to have been used as wrapping paper. It took a twenty-year-old musician, who would become as well known as Bach, to bring about an interest in his works. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion, and revived interest in the long-forgotten composer. The genius of Bach was finally recognized by the world. In this delightful story, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time. Combining music, history, and culture with biography, this story is as entertaining as it is educational—a musical journey back through time.