C.P.E. Bach Studies

by Annette Richards (Editor)

Overview

Focusing on his activity in Hamburg from 1767 until his death in 1788, this collection of essays explores the literary and aesthetic contexts of C.P.E. Bach's later work. It includes essays on Bach's position on contemporary concepts of responsiveness, his sacred music and views on religion, and on the contemporary and posthumous reception of his music. The volume seeks to re-establish the centrality of Bach's music in late 18th-century German culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521120432
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2009
Series:	Cambridge Composer Studies
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Annette Richards is Associate Professor of Music and University Organist at Cornell University. She is the author of The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque (Cambridge, 2001), and co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (2000). An active performer, she has won prizes at the Dublin International Organ Competition and the Bruges Early Music Festival, and has recorded the complete works of Melchior Schildt at the historic organ in Roskilde Cathedral.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Diderot's Paradoxe and C. P. E. Bach's Empfindungen Richard Kramer; 2. Dark fantasies and the dawn of the self: Gerstenberg's monologues for C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Fantasia Tobias Plebuch; 3. Sources of C. P. E. Bach's solo keyboard works in the Sing-Akademie archives Darrell M. Berg; 4. Reason and revelation in C. P. E. Bach's Resurrection Oratorio Richard Will; 5. C. P. E. Bach and C. C. Sturm: sacred song, public church service, and private devotion Ulrich Leisinger; 6. An enduring moment: C. P. E. Bach and the musical sublime Annette Richards; 7. C. P. E. Bach and the living traditions of learned counterpoint David Yearsley; 8. Plates for sale: C. P. E. Bach and the story of Die Kunst der Fuge David Ferris; 10. 'Our old great favourite': Burney, Bach and the Bachists Christopher Hogwood.

Editorial Reviews

"A must for music historians and students of 18th-century culture. Essential." — Choice

"The volume achieves its goal of returning C.P.E. Bach to a central place in the landscape of eighteenth-century music." —German Studies Review

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