Biography & Autobiography
Music in the Castle of Heaven
- 2014-08-26
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014-08-26
Type: BOOK
In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distils the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's greatest living interpreters.
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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
- 2020-03-24
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-03-24
Type: BOOK
In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject.
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Bach & God
- 2016-04-20
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-04-20
Type: BOOK
Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology.
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Music of the Twentieth Century
- 2005
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005
Type: BOOK
Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer.
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J. S. Bach
- 2007-02-15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-15
Type: BOOK
In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it.
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Richard Wagner
- 2013-09-18
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-09-18
Type: BOOK
A landmark study of one of music’s most important figures “People who would like to know more about Wagner, and people who have loved his music for years . . . will find a great deal in this book to enjoy and to admire.” —Tablet ...
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Bach Among the Theologians
- 2003-11-06
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2003-11-06
Type: BOOK
In the second portion of the book, Pelikan examines the theological motifs that are reflected in the texts Bach used and in the settings he provided for these texts.
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The Ghosts of Heaven
- 2015-01-06
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-01-06
Type: BOOK
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick.
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The Rest Is Noise
- 2007-10-16
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Type: BOOK
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book ...
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- 2017-05
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05
Type: BOOK
This is the only book about J.S. Bach that presents colorful vignettes of his career within a detailed context of the even more colorful everyday world around him. Written by a master storyteller and acclaimed performer of Bach's music.
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