Bach : music in the castle of heaven /

"From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters, a landmark study which explains in ... detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardiner, John Eliot
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition:First United States edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Under the cantor's gaze
  • Germany on the brink of enlightenment
  • The Bach gene
  • The class of '85
  • The mechanics of faith
  • The incorrigible cantor
  • Bach at his workbench
  • Cantatas or coffee?
  • Cycles and seasons
  • First Passion
  • His "Great Passion"
  • Collision and collusion
  • The habit of perfection
  • "Old Bach."