A musical offering /
In the 18th century, Count Keyserling commissions Johann Sebastian Bach to compose a piece of music that will finally allow him to fall asleep. Bach, surpassing all expectations, creates an aria containing thirty variations that became known as the Goldberg Variations, in honor of its first performe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Edinburgh :
Charco Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | In the 18th century, Count Keyserling commissions Johann Sebastian Bach to compose a piece of music that will finally allow him to fall asleep. Bach, surpassing all expectations, creates an aria containing thirty variations that became known as the Goldberg Variations, in honor of its first performer, put in charge of playing the piece night after night until the count fell asleep. With this story, Luis Sagasti opens a hypnotic tale full of counterpoints that, just like the Variations, sets out to follow the turns of a melody so as to arrive at the final aria, where everything begins again. |
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| Item Description: | First published in Spanish as Una ofrenda musical by Eterna Cadencia (Argentina), 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 111 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781999368456 1999368452 |