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Johann Sebastian Bach : life and work

Title

Johann Sebastian Bach : life and work / Martin Geck ; translated from the German by John Hargraves.

Author

Geck, Martin.

Publication

Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Hargraves, John.

Description

738 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Bach. English

Alternative Title

Bach.

Subject

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-719) and index.

Contents

Approaching Bach -- What do we know about Bach? -- The grand old men of Bach biography: Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer -- Transmission of the works -- I: The stations of Bach's life -- From Matins Singer to Hofkapellmeister -- Eisenach -- Ohrdruf -- Lüneburg -- Arnstadt -- Mühlhausen -- Weimar -- Cöthen -- Cantor at St. Thomas and city music director in Leipzig -- The position and its new incumbent -- The early years in Leipzig -- The middle Leipzig period: "court composer" -- Director of the Collegium Musicum and composer of secular music -- Aesthetic controversies, private initiatives -- The later Leipzig years: the universalist -- The Bach household -- II: The vocal music -- The early and Weimar cantatas -- The Leipzig cantatas -- The passions -- Secular cantatas and the Christmas oratorio -- The Magnificat and the masses -- The motets -- III: The instrumental works -- The art of the Toccata -- The organ chorales -- The Cöthen demonstrations cycles: inventions and sinfonias, The well-tempered clavier, six solos for violin -- The concertos -- The sonatas and suites -- The late cycles -- The Goldberg variations -- The art of Fugue -- The musical offering -- Bach's art -- Bach as a Christian -- Rhetoric and symbolism -- Proportion and numerical relations in Bach's music -- Theological Bach research: between scholarship and faith-inspired learning.

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