With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard in Bach biography. Time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his
Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. Now available in paperback, this engaging biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing-and sometimes imperfect-human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances gained in the last half-century of Bach scholarship. By searching the title, publisher, or authors. Published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author and leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. It will entirely ease you to see guide Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician Christoph Wolff as you such as. Bach through countless performances and recordings, the composer himself continues to come across as the somewhat enigmatic figure depicted in a single, familiar portrait. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography.Although we are acquainted with the music of J. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. It carries a canon in the strict contrapuntal style that identifies him as a learned musician.
Bach presents himself with a serious look and shows the viewer a sheet of music. They show the only authentic representation of the musician. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. There are two originals of the portrait, both of which are located in Leipzig. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composers life and his music showing how Bachs superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era.
Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.Īlthough we have heard the music of J.
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