Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and WorkHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 738 pagina's Two hundred and fifty years after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach remains one of the most compelling figures in the history of classical music. In this major study of the composer's life and work, Martin Geck follows the course of Bach's career in rich detail--from his humble beginnings as an organ tuner and self-taught court musician to his role as Kapellmeister and cantor of St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Geck explores Bach's relations with the German aristocracy, his position with regard to the Church and contemporary theological debates, his perfectionism, and his role as the devoted head of a large family. The focus in this comprehensive, thoroughly researched book is on the extraordinary work that came of the composer's life. From the Goldberg Variations to the Brandenburg Concertos to theArt of the Fugue, Geck carefully analyzes Bach's innovations in harmony and counterpoint, placing them in the context of European musical and social history. Always fresh and stimulating, this definitive work reintroduces Bach's enormous oeuvre in all its splendor. |
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Foreword by Kurt Masur ix | 3 |
Transmission of the Works | 23 |
From Matins Singer to Hofkapellmeister | 35 |
Cantor at St Thomas and City Music Director in Leipzig | 115 |
Director of the Collegium Musicum and Composer | 189 |
The Early and Weimar Cantatas | 277 |
The Leipzig Cantatas | 326 |
The Passions | 385 |
Inventions and Sinfonias | 525 |
The Concertos | 550 |
The Sonatas and Suites | 579 |
The Late Cycles | 608 |
Bachs Art | 643 |
Bach as a Christian | 653 |
Rhetoric and Symbolism | 660 |
Proportion and Numerical Relations in Bachs Music | 670 |
Secular Cantatas and the Christmas Oratorio | 415 |
The Magnificat and the Masses | 436 |
The Motets | 453 |
The Art of the Toccata | 471 |
The Organ Chorales | 498 |
Acknowledgments | 677 |
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