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The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas
Contributor(s): Wolff, Christoph (Editor), Koopman, Ton (Foreword by), Koopman, Ton (Preface by)

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 ISBN: 0393336743     ISBN-13: 9780393336740
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $23.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1997
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Annotation: The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the Baroque period. In an illuminating discussion of the musical, literary, aesthetic, and theological aspects of the composers early cantatas, leading Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context. 85 photos.
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
- Music | Instruction & Study - Voice
Dewey: 782.240
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.75" W x 9.74" L (0.99 lbs) 244 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Wolff, Christoph: - Christoph Wolff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, and author of numerous works of music history, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 
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