Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Anatoly P Milka is Professor and Dr Habil. of Musicology at the St Petersburg Conservatory and the St Petersburg State University, Russia. His publications in Russian include Theoretical Foundations of Functionality in Music (St Petersburg, 1982); Bach’s Musical Offering: Toward Reconstruction and Interpretation (Moscow, 1999); Intriguing Bachiana (with Tatiana Shabalina; St Petersburg, 1997, 2001); a facsimile edition of L'A.B.C. Musical von Gottfried Kirchhoff (St Petersburg, 2004); and Bach’s The Art of Fugue: Toward Reconstruction and Interpretation (St Petersburg, 2009). This is his first book appearing in English. Marina Ritzarev is Professor and Dr Habil. of Musicology. She was a student and scholar in St Petersburg and Moscow before moving to Israel in 1990, where she teaches at Bar-Ilan University. She has authored books in Russian on Dmitry Bortniansky (1979, 2015), Maxim Berezovsky (1983, 2013), Sergei Slonimsky (1991) and the Russian Sacred Concerto (2006). Her two books in English - Eighteen-Century Russian Music (2006) and Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' and Russian Culture (2014) - were published by Ashgate. Esti Sheinberg is Associate Professor of Practice in Music History at the Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (BA in musicology at the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel; PhD in music at the University of Edinburgh, UK). She has authored Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich (Ashgate, 2000), and edited Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations - in Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle (Ashgate, 2012).