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The New Bach Reader
Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Oct 17th, 1999
- Pages: 608
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised and Exp - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.10in - 1.10in - 1.95lb
- EAN: 9780393319569
- Categories: • Music• Historical• Individual Composer & Musician
About the Author
Wolff, Christoph: - Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
What people are saying
The Week
3 years
"A marvelous book, full of anecdotes in original letters and other family papers of Bach and his contemporaries. Requests for more musicians, firewood, and money indicate some practical realities in the life of perhaps the greatest composer in all of Western music."
– Steve Reich is a composer.
What people are saying
The Week
3 years
"A marvelous book, full of anecdotes in original letters and other family papers of Bach and his contemporaries. Requests for more musicians, firewood, and money indicate some practical realities in the life of perhaps the greatest composer in all of Western music."
– Steve Reich is a composer.