Martin Geck; John Hargraves - Johann Sebastian Bach Life and Work

Orlando, Harcourt, 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover with color printed dustjacket in original plastic shrinkwrap. 738 pp with illustrations, music. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most compelling figures in classical music. This study of the composer's life and work follows the course of Bach's career in rich detail - from his humble beginnings as an organ tuner and self-taught musician, to his role as Kapallmeister and cantor of St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Approaching Bach.; What do we know about Bach? ;; The grand old men of Bach biography : Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer ;; Transmission of the works --; 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) --; 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 --; The instrumental works.; The art of the toccata ;; The organ chorales ;; The Cöthen demonstration 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) --; Horizons.; 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. VG+/VG+ .

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