The New Grove Bach Family [Paperback]

Christopher Wolff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1983

This composite volume centered on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach examines the work of all the members of the Bach family.

Linked by a family tree which clarifies the genealogy of this complex family, each of the major figures is covered in a separate chapter with a review of the composer's life and works, complemented by a thorough work-list, bibliography, and index. The work-lists of J. S., C. P. E., and J. C. Bach have been considerably revised and updated in light of research conducted since the publication of The New Grove. In an introductory chapter Christoph Wolff provides a full list of family members, including biographical details, and discusses the family's history.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Christoph Wolff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University and one of the world’s foremost experts on Bach and Mozart. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (August 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393300889
• ISBN-13: 978-0393300888
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,202,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Biographical information on the Bach family, January 12, 2005

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This review is from: The New Grove Bach Family (The New Grove Series) (Paperback)

The Bach family, perhaps Germany's most illustrious musical name, included an amazing variety of musicians. With chapters on most of the major Bach composers, I found the chapters on J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and W.F. Bach especially interesting.

There are also some valuable biographies of earlier Bach's such as Johann Christoph Bach, a contemporary with Pachabel and Johann Michael Bach, the father-in-law of Johann Sebastion.

With each composer, a comprehensive list is provided of the extant as well as compositions known to have been composed but are apparently lost.

Anyone wanting to understand music in Germany during the baroque era will want to check out this book.