Uncovering important historical evidence, the author demonstrates significant influences on Bach's artistic development and brings fresh insight on his work habits, compositional intent, and the musical traditions that shaped Bach's thought. The noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers in this book new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career. More than two centuries after his lifetime, Bach's work continues to set musical standards. A uniquely gifted musician, he combined outstanding performing virtuosity with supreme creative powers and remarkable intellectual discipline. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard in Bach biography.Johann Sebastian Bach holds a singular position in the history of music.

And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences.

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. 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. Bach through countless performances and recordings, the composer himself continues to come across as the somewhat enigmatic figure depicted in a single, familiar portrait. Although we are acquainted with the music of J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly (UU) Undergraduate. Num Pages: 640 pages, frontispiece numerous halftones 1 map, numerous music examples. Bach's death) presents a picture of the composer that 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.

This biography (first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J.S. Description for Johann Sebastian Bach Paperback.

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