Reinventing Bach: The Search for Transcendence in Sound

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM

One of the greatest musicians of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach was also a genius in the search for new sounds through technology—a pursuit as lively in his moment as it is in ours. A master of the pipe organ (the high-tech device of his era), Bach was constantly coming up with fresh and flexible approaches to keyboards, string instruments, and sacred choirs, such that his work is ceaselessly alive and adaptable three centuri...