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Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. 42 b/w illustrations.
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eminently readable, at times even colloquial. Wolff is one of the foremost Bach scholars today, and his comprehensive knowledge of the source materials equips him admirably to write such a book ... all sorts of interesting details emerge. (John Kitchen, Early Music Today, Oct.-Nov. 2000 )
Drawing on a lifetime's involvement with Bach's music, Professor Wolff has written what is undoubtedly the most authorative and up-to-date survey of the composer's life and works in English, and probably in any language. (Malcolm Boyd, The Gramophone )
Musical biographies don't come much better than this ... no-one seriously interested in Bach should pass it by. (Bettina Neumann, Piano, July-Aug 2000 )
this is a learned and satisfying account of Bach's work, temperament and milieu which will disappoint neither specialist nor general music lover. (Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine ) --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。
Drawing on a lifetime's involvement with Bach's music, Professor Wolff has written what is undoubtedly the most authorative and up-to-date survey of the composer's life and works in English, and probably in any language. (Malcolm Boyd, The Gramophone )
Musical biographies don't come much better than this ... no-one seriously interested in Bach should pass it by. (Bettina Neumann, Piano, July-Aug 2000 )
this is a learned and satisfying account of Bach's work, temperament and milieu which will disappoint neither specialist nor general music lover. (Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine ) --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。
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著名なバッハ研究者ヴォルフ氏による新しい切り口からのバッハ評伝である。
従来の評伝のように生涯を年代順にたどったり、作品をジャンル別に紹介するのではなく、「成長する音楽家」としてのバッハの姿を描こうとするものである。洋書で本文４５０ページ以上の大作だが、同時代の各種資料により、バッハが影響を受けたり、交友のあった音楽家、演奏家、楽器製作者や大学、教会、宮廷の関係者などの人物像とバッハの作品が、バッハ自身の史実の周りに、巧みに整理されており、読者はヴォルフ氏が築いたバッハその人に焦点をあてた空間に足を踏み入れ、まるで自分自身がバッハとなったかのような不思議な追体験をすることになる。
バッハファンは必読、また、邦訳の待たれる名著である.
従来の評伝のように生涯を年代順にたどったり、作品をジャンル別に紹介するのではなく、「成長する音楽家」としてのバッハの姿を描こうとするものである。洋書で本文４５０ページ以上の大作だが、同時代の各種資料により、バッハが影響を受けたり、交友のあった音楽家、演奏家、楽器製作者や大学、教会、宮廷の関係者などの人物像とバッハの作品が、バッハ自身の史実の周りに、巧みに整理されており、読者はヴォルフ氏が築いたバッハその人に焦点をあてた空間に足を踏み入れ、まるで自分自身がバッハとなったかのような不思議な追体験をすることになる。
バッハファンは必読、また、邦訳の待たれる名著である.
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A scholarly masterpiece worthy of your intelligence!
2003/9/16
By カスタマー
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This book is most ostensibly not a work intended to provide a layman's knowledge of Bach. The book assumes a fair knowledge of Bach and his oeuvre, as well as a thorough knowledge of music theory and general instrumentation. Cristoph Wolff has written a thoroughly satisfying and extraordinarily comprehensive summary of Bach's professional and personal lives. I found that despite the book's intrinsically serious tone, reading it as a whole felt not like a biography, but a story that us Bach fanatics wish would never end.
This book is thoroughly impressive in both its scope and its detail, though the numerous tables cataloguing Bach's work from the various periods such as Weimar and Cothen are not as well integrated in text as one might hope. Where Wolff makes the occasional reference to the tables, I as the reader desired to see more comparison and analysis of various works in each period.
It is also immediately apparent upon even a glance through the index that Wolff dedicates much of his analysis of Bach's major works to Bach's vocal music, and notably less space to Bach's instrumental and keyboard/organ music. As we know, Bach's Fugue "the Great" in G minor, BWV 542, is a towering masterpiece of Bach's (and Baroque) organ music, but Wolff hardly affords it the analysis it demands. He also neglects to develop much depth of analysis with Bach's instrumental works. For example, we know that nearly all of Bach's solo and multiple piano concerti have their roots in previous concerti, but little attention is paid as to why Bach chose to transcribe to piano(harpsichord), why he selected the works he did, and whether there is a distinct method/pattern to Bach's transcriptions.
Wolff does do, however, an exquisite job of analysis of Bach's vocal music, exploring the depth of Bach's passion for writing cantatas, and how skillfully he was able to interpet his vision of the words into music. Wolff provides numerous glimpses of Bach's organ expertise, especially in the field of repair and construction. These descriptions do require some prior knowledge of how an organ produces sound and how it is played in order to be enjoyed to the fullest. The book also does a magnificient job of exploring and relating the various and primary influences on Bach's musical development and style. Wolff provides an insight into the influence of Dietrich Buxtehude especially, as well as that of Johann Pachelbel and the numerous older Bach relations. Much has been heaped upon Mozart's child prodigy fame, but even those of us for whom Bach is a perpetual favorite, know little about Bach's formative years, and Wolff gives a very comprehensive look at Bach's musical training.
Wolff's small digressions notwithstanding, this book is truly one every lover of Bach should keep in his library. (And reread every so often!)
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Don't buy on Kindle
2011/1/29
By plhgg
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形式:ペーパーバック
Someone else has warned that the Kindle edition lacks the illustrations that appear in the book. For me a far more serious flaw is that the Kindle edition lacks this book's substantial index (one can view the index in the Amazon "search this book" function, but it's not possible to print it out. It's true that an index in a Kindle book won't have page numbers as locators, but the index should still be included as a way of seeing what information is available. Yes, one can do a search in the Kindle, but that's not good enough. Amazon claims that the book only contains what the publisher sent them. Fine, then this is the publisher's fault; however, buyers should be warned if/when the Kindle edition does not contain the whole book.
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5つ星のうち 5.0
Best book ever on Bach
2002/12/12
By Mike Duffy
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形式:ペーパーバック
The usual view of Bach's life that I grew up with portrays him as something of a musical hermit, producing masterpieces and children at a prolific rate in relative anonymity with little or no earthly recognition. This book completely revises my view of Bach's life. Wolff shows Bach as a fantastically well-rounded and charismatic musician with a fantastic ability to create masterpieces, a great teacher, well loved and respected member of the community, a profound and simple Christian, and a fundamentally happy, joyful, complete man. Wolff also tries to show that Bach was the greatest musician who ever lived, and does a pretty convincing job at that. I always knew Bach was a great musician; this book simply reinforces and proves my intuition. His intermittant references to Newton are a little annoying and indicative of the hyperbole Wolff sometimes uses, but one gets used to them. The book also shows his human side - his mercurial temperment, his sometimes overbearing and demanding personality, and his greed. This book contains an enormous amount of personal information on Bach, far more than I knew existed. Wolff writes well and does not use an inordinate amount of musical terminology, so a musical illiterate like myself can still read and enjoy him. If you love Bach's music get this book, and you might as well the New Bach Reader along with it, as a good percentage of the quotes in Wolff's come directly from this source.
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