Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393041064
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the Baroque period. In an illuminating discussion of the musical, literary, aesthetic, and theological aspects of the composers early cantatas, leading Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context. 85 photos.