This book (published in German by B�renreiter in 1988 and now available in English translation for the first time) is a comprehensive guide to the genesis, transmission, structure, meaning, and performance considerations of Bach's St John Passion. One of Bach's most fascinating works, its text demonstrates a profound understanding of St John's Gospel.
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`If it is reliable information on this remarkable work that you want, Durr's study is the obvious place to start. Bach could have no more faithful servant' John Butt, Times Literary Supplement
Durr's sensitivity to and historical grasp of the text ... give the book an authority that can hardly be surpassed.
`It would be fair ... to describe Alfred Durr as the doyen of Bach scholars worldwide ... a scholar of legendary reliability and good sense. Like many others, I feel a deep pleasure in welcoming the spate of books and articles of his post-retirement years, for whatever he touches is in safe hands ... The obvious strength of the book is its alert and intimate description of three complicated matters ... covered here better than ever before: the Passion's genesis ... transmission ... and meaning ... Durr's sensitivity to and historical grasp of the text ... give the book an authority that can hardly be surpassed.' Peter Williams, Musical Times, March 2001
`a useful setting-out of the various problems the work presents, and the author's comments are always sensible.' Early Music Review 67, Feb 01.
Durr's sensitivity to and historical grasp of the text ... give the book an authority that can hardly be surpassed.
`It would be fair ... to describe Alfred Durr as the doyen of Bach scholars worldwide ... a scholar of legendary reliability and good sense. Like many others, I feel a deep pleasure in welcoming the spate of books and articles of his post-retirement years, for whatever he touches is in safe hands ... The obvious strength of the book is its alert and intimate description of three complicated matters ... covered here better than ever before: the Passion's genesis ... transmission ... and meaning ... Durr's sensitivity to and historical grasp of the text ... give the book an authority that can hardly be surpassed.' Peter Williams, Musical Times, March 2001
`a useful setting-out of the various problems the work presents, and the author's comments are always sensible.' Early Music Review 67, Feb 01.
About the Author
Alfred D�rr is one of the principal editors of the Neue Bach Ausgabe in which he edited Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He is the author of the standard work in German on Bach's cantatas. (An English translation of this book, by Richard D.P. Jones, is in progress.) He holds honorary doctorates of music at Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio and at Oxford University.
Alfred Clayton (translator) has translated numerous books, including (for OUP) Paul Badura-Skoda: Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard.
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The attempt to reconstruct the genesis of Bach's St John Passion on the basis of the extant and unfortunately incomplete manuscript sources resembles the work of an archaeologist faced with the task of piecing together an antique vase from innumerable small fragments of pottery. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
choral insert, laß dich fragen, turba choruses, dürfen niemand töten, bassono grosso, den nicht zerteilen, windet euch nicht, circular canon, autograph section, schreibe nicht, ist vollbracht, lute part, semiquaver figuration, final chorale, transverse flutes, flauto traverso, free poetry, passion oratorio, opening ritornello, con sordini, key scheme, choral movements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The attempt to reconstruct the genesis of Bach's St John Passion on the basis of the extant and unfortunately incomplete manuscript sources resembles the work of an archaeologist faced with the task of piecing together an antique vase from innumerable small fragments of pottery. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
choral insert, laß dich fragen, turba choruses, dürfen niemand töten, bassono grosso, den nicht zerteilen, windet euch nicht, circular canon, autograph section, schreibe nicht, ist vollbracht, lute part, semiquaver figuration, final chorale, transverse flutes, flauto traverso, free poetry, passion oratorio, opening ritornello, con sordini, key scheme, choral movements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Good Friday, Bach's Passion, Bach's St John Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, Elke Axmacher, Werner Neumann, Bach's Weimar, Christian Heinrich Postel, Friedrich Smend, Johann Andreas Kuhnau, Werner Breig New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 4
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- Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bach Studies by Don O. Franklin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1 by Philipp Spitta in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bach Compendium by Hans-Joachim Schulze in Back Matter
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