Bach's Musical Universe

The Composer and His Work

Christoph Wolff

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Norton
06 May 2020

Music; Western "classical" music; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Techniques of music & music tutorials

In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize—finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff contextualizes his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions— from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B- Minor Mass.

Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach's creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres, and centers on what the composer himself judiciously presented in carefully designed benchmark collections and individual works— all consequential to Bach's musical art. Tracing Bach's evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.

By: Christoph Wolff
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 734g
ISBN: 9780393050714
ISBN 10: 0393050718
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 06 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work

If Wolff's first book, could be described in its simplest terms as Bach in his world ', his second is Bach in eternity . -- Lindsay Kemp - Gramophone ...a very welcome and scholarly complement to the earlier biography that focuses more intensely on the music itself, the thought and compositional processes that created it... As we have come to expect from Professor Wolff, the book is meticulously prepared, supported by numerous tables, footnotes, and extensive bibliography. Readers will be particularly drawn to the detailed chronology, clearly set out for easy reference and fascinating reading in itself. -- Margaret Steinitz - Journal of the London Bach Society