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His earlier Biography of J.S. Bach is one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable presentations of the great Master's Life. Now this book of Essays collects shorter articles and speeches Wolff has given over the years, exploring a wide variety of subjects having to do with Bach's music, primarily, as illuminated by recent historical.
Get this from a library! Bach: essays on his life and music. (Christoph Wolff) -- Johann Sebastian Bach holds a singular position in the history of music. A uniquely gifted musician, he combined outstanding performing virtuosity with supreme creative powers and remarkable.
Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician.
J. S. Bach: A Life in Music. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9781139461191; Christoph Wolff. Bach: Essays on His Life and Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 9780674059269 (4th reprint, 1999) Christoph Wolff. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04825-X.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous 16 th century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.
Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach: A Life in Music, revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music.
He is a leading Bach scholar whose numerous publications and editorial work on Bach’s music include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (1991). The approach that Wolff takes in writing a Bach.