Author: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612289347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For more than 100 years now, the name of Johann Sebastian Bach has been considered among the most highly regarded of all composers. The “holy cantor” church musician has been written about in many books. So, it might be difficult for some of us to imagine, but for several generations after his death, Bach had been forgotten. What remained of his vast number of works gathered dust in private collections or distant archives. Many of his works were discarded; in fact, some found their way to a butcher shop and are reported to have been used as wrapping paper. It took a twenty-year-old musician, who would become as well known as Bach, to bring about an interest in his works. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion, and revived interest in the long-forgotten composer. The genius of Bach was finally recognized by the world. In this delightful story, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time. Combining music, history, and culture with biography, this story is as entertaining as it is educational—a musical journey back through time.
The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612289347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For more than 100 years now, the name of Johann Sebastian Bach has been considered among the most highly regarded of all composers. The “holy cantor” church musician has been written about in many books. So, it might be difficult for some of us to imagine, but for several generations after his death, Bach had been forgotten. What remained of his vast number of works gathered dust in private collections or distant archives. Many of his works were discarded; in fact, some found their way to a butcher shop and are reported to have been used as wrapping paper. It took a twenty-year-old musician, who would become as well known as Bach, to bring about an interest in his works. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion, and revived interest in the long-forgotten composer. The genius of Bach was finally recognized by the world. In this delightful story, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time. Combining music, history, and culture with biography, this story is as entertaining as it is educational—a musical journey back through time.
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612289347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For more than 100 years now, the name of Johann Sebastian Bach has been considered among the most highly regarded of all composers. The “holy cantor” church musician has been written about in many books. So, it might be difficult for some of us to imagine, but for several generations after his death, Bach had been forgotten. What remained of his vast number of works gathered dust in private collections or distant archives. Many of his works were discarded; in fact, some found their way to a butcher shop and are reported to have been used as wrapping paper. It took a twenty-year-old musician, who would become as well known as Bach, to bring about an interest in his works. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion, and revived interest in the long-forgotten composer. The genius of Bach was finally recognized by the world. In this delightful story, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time. Combining music, history, and culture with biography, this story is as entertaining as it is educational—a musical journey back through time.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Martin Geck
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151006489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151006489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher Description
Sebastian
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152006297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152006297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199248841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199248841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
The True Life Of J.S. Bach
Author: Klaus Eidam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this new biography, Eidam brings the icon of baroque music into focus as never before. Through painstaking research and careful evaluation of existing documents, he debunks a number of myths that have surrounded Bach in the 250 years since his death. Illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this new biography, Eidam brings the icon of baroque music into focus as never before. Through painstaking research and careful evaluation of existing documents, he debunks a number of myths that have surrounded Bach in the 250 years since his death. Illustrations.
Becoming Bach
Author: Thomas Leonard
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1626722862
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1626722862
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
New Bach Reader
Author: Hans T David
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.
J. S. Bach
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139461192
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's 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 book's 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 Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139461192
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's 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 book's 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 Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.
The Little Bach Book
Author: David J Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692878415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692878415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Peggy Pancella
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403467454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Johann Sebastian Bach helped to create some incredible music. Learn about his life in this exciting title.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403467454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Johann Sebastian Bach helped to create some incredible music. Learn about his life in this exciting title.