Name: the world of the bach cantatas
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Author: Christoph Wolff
ISBN: 9780393336740

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Christoph Wolff

Preface by

Ton Koopman

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Author

Christoph Wolff

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.7x17.1x1.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

0393336743

ISBN13

9780393336740

Synopsis "the world of the bach cantatas"

Such questions concern the role of the cantatas in Bach's compositional development, musical models for the works, and performance practice during the composer's lifetime. In this book, Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context, guiding the reader through their literary, musical, aesthetic and theological features. This volume--the first of three which complement a recording project by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and incorporating the complete Bach cantatas--covers the sacred cantatas he wrote during the first 28 years of his life, before his move to Leipzig in 1723.

Christoph Wolff

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Christoph Wolff (Solingen, 1940), musicologist and professor at Harvard University, is one of the most celebrated specialists in Bach and Mozart. He has published, among other titles, Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (1991), Mozart’s Requiem (1994), The New Bach Reader (1998), Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000), for which he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mozart at the Threshold of His Prime (2013; Acantilado, 2018) and The Musical Universe of Bach: The Composer and His Work (2020; Acantilado, 2025)

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