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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era book cover

1st Edition

Johann Sebastian Bach The Culmination of an Era

By Karl Geiringer, Irene Geiringer Copyright 1967
404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge
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When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many discoveries about Bach’s life and music that occurred in the postwar years created the need for a new interpretative study incorporating this research and this was the only book which incorporated the vast amount of material uncovered since 1950, the... Read more

Part 1: The Life of Bach. Introduction: The Ancestors. 1. Apprenticeship 2. Years of Growth 3. The Great Organist 4. Court Conductor and Princely Friend 5. Thomas Cantor and Director Musices 6. Friends and Adversaries 7. Nearing the End. Conclusion: After 1750 Part 2: Bach’s Artistic Heritage Part 3: The Music of Bach 1. Works for Voices and Instruments 2. Works for Organ Solo 3. Works for Clavier Solo 4. Works for string and Wind Instruments; Concertos.

Biography

Karl Geiringer (1899-1989) was an Austrian-American musicologist, prolific author and Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Original review of Johann Sebastian Bach:

‘The discussions of the music are supplemented by music examples often well chosen…’ Arthur Mendel, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21 (3), 1968.

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