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Author(s): Peter Williams
ISBN(s): 9780521306836, 0521306833
Edition: Reprint
File Details: PDF, 6.24 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521306833 
ISBN 13: 9780521306836
Author: Peter Williams

Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach’s life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents’ sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book’s title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach’s life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.

J S Bach A Life in Music 1st Table of contents:

  • 1. Early years 1685–1703

    • ‘Honourable Thuringians’

    • Birth, family

    • Loss of parents

    • The ‘Moonlight episode’

    • The move to Lüneburg

    • Visits to Hamburg

    • French tastes

  • 2. First appointments 1703–8

    • The Arnstadt appointment

    • Further influences

    • From Arnstadt to Lübeck

    • Buxtehude

    • The Mühlhausen appointment

    • The Mühlhausen organ

    • First marriage

    • Letters and writing

  • 3. Weimar 1708–17

    • Heard by a duke

    • The Weimar appointment

    • Weimar organ composition

    • Other development in Weimar

    • The Halle audition

    • Music for Halle?

    • The Weimar promotion and cantatas

    • Pupils in Weimar

    • The competition with Marchand

  • 4. Cöthen 1717–23

    • The call to Cöthen

    • The move to Cöthen

    • The Cöthen appointment

    • The ‘Brandenburg Concertos’

    • Some other music at Cöthen

    • Death of wife Maria Barbara

    • The Hamburg recital (audition?)

    • Second marriage

    • Some other musical activities

    • The family

  • 5. Leipzig, the first years

    • The call to Leipzig

    • The appointment procedure

    • New life in Leipzig

    • The place of cantatas

    • Some other music

    • Further cantata cycles

    • The Passions

    • Other musical activities

  • 6. Leipzig, the middle years

    • The Collegium musicum and chamber repertories

    • The first published set of pieces

      The royal title and associated music

    • Organs and organ music

    • Harpsichord music

    • Other musical developments

    • Other activities

  • 7. Leipzig, the final years

    • Further cantatas

    • Later works for keyboard

    • The Mass in B minor

    • The ‘Musical Offering’ and ‘The Art of Fugue’

    • The visit to Potsdam

    • The final years and Bach’s vision

  • 8. Observations, descriptions, criticisms

    • The obituary

    • Character and personality

    • The composer as a whole

    • ‘Early’ and ‘late’ Bach

    • Authenticity, chronology, authorship

    • Bach’s aims and motives

    • Bach’s ‘failure’

    • Style, method and genre

    • Tradition and originality

    • Bach as ‘old master’

    • The performance of Bach’s music

    • Modern interpretation of Bach

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