J. S. Bach. A Life In Music

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 405 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bachs life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the books title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bachs life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.

ISBN: 9780521870740