[PDF] The True Life Of Js Bach eBook

Author : Klaus Eidam
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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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 : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151006489

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Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199248841

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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 : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1908526416

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Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing 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, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.

Author : Sallie Ketcham
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1999-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780531301401

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When young Sebastian Bach learns that old Adam Reinken of Hamburg is a better organist than himself, he sets out to meet his rival.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190606967

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Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0007156618

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Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a unique moment in history where belief collided with the cold certainty of reason. Set at the tipping point between the ancient and modern world, Evening in the Palace of Reason captures the tumult of the eighteenth century, the legacy of the Reformation, and the birth of the Enlightenment in this extraordinary tale of two men.