Description
About the Author
David Schulenberg is Department Chair and Professor of Music at Wagner College. He is the author of The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014), Music of the Baroque (OUP, 2013), The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (2010), The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach (2006), and numerous articles.
Reviews
...this volume offers a thorough analysis of current and traditional scholarship associated with Bach's life and music. * E.G. Wickersham, emerita, Rosemont College, CHOICE *
He offers a comprehensive, useful, and insightful path to the understanding of Johann Sebastian Bach, both the man and the artist. The volume will deservedly become a standard biography with a wide readership. * Raymond Erickson, Bach Notes *
This is a Bach biography for our time--steeped in the tradition of Bach studies but up to date on the latest research; fluent in the received legacy of Bach but willing to rethink inherited views. Everyone from Bach lovers to students to performers will learn from this worthy successor to Malcolm Boyd's volume. We may have our doubts in the 21st century about the idea of a Master Musician, but David Schulenberg clearly demonstrates Bach's central place in our musical world and expertly introduces the compositions that put him there. * Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University, and President, American Bach Society *
A superbly lucid, down-to-earth portrait of Bach the man that at the same time seeks to get to the heart of what was so unique about his extraordinary musical achievements. * Bettina Varwig, University of Cambridge *
Dispensing with biographical minutiae and more closely examining the interplay between his life and his music, Bach presents a unique, grounded, and refreshing new framing of a brilliant composer.' I can only agree. * Andrew Benson-Wilson, Andrew Benson-Wilson Early Music Reviews *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190936303
Author David Schulenberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 734g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 164mm * 31mm