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The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas
The cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context.

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.

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The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas
The cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context.

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.

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The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas

The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas

The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas

The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas

Overview

The cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393336740
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/01/1997
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christoph Wolff 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, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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