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Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
None
Description
The renowned Bach-Gesellschaft was founded in 1850 to collect, edit, and publish all the known works of J.S. Bach. This volume reprints in full, directly from the Bach-Gesellschaft volumes, the full texts of Bach's Six English Suites, the Six French Suites, Six Partitas from the Clavierubung, the Goldberg Variations, and the Two- and Three-Part Inventions and Sinfonias. A playing edition, with music in large, clear type.
Series
Criterion collection volume 854
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Swedish
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes is dying of cancer and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize- winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began listening to the music of Bach obsessively, and spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with memories of...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
℗2019.
Language
English
Description
When the richest man in town can't sleep, he hires Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to play him lullabies on the harpsichord. Goldberg's work doesn't quite do the job, and nobody in the town can sleep. But then the composer Johann Sebastian Bach enters the scene with a series of lullabies called the Goldberg Variations, which makes the entire town happy.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws...
14) Becoming Bach
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff contextualizes his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical Universe is...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer's most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Dan Moller grew up listening to heavy metal in the Boston suburbs. But something changed when he dug out his mother's record of The Art of the Fugue, inexplicably wedged between 16 ABBA Hits and Kenny Rogers. Moller became fixated on Bach and his music, but only learned to play it for himself as an adult. Here, Moller draws us into the strange and surprisingly funny world of the composer and his scene. Did you know The Goldberg Variations contain...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps' or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Gathered in this volume are all the letters, reports, testimonials, complaints, thank-you notes, and other writings of J.S. Bach, together with a generous helping of performance and payment inventories, town council proceedings, court and archival records, letters of appointment, and other papers that document the fabric of the composer's daily life. Here, in English translations that preserve the full flavor of the originals, we encounter more than...
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