![]() ![]() Opening with a 1737 attack by a critic who labeled Bach a pedant who spoiled the natural beauty of his creations with "an excess of art," Christoph Wolff cogently compares the German composer to English scientist Isaac Newton. The Learned Musician is an apt subtitle for this intellectual biography, which assesses the career of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with the scholarly rigor one would expect from a Harvard professor. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. How Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author and leading Bach scholar, here Christoph Wolff Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. ![]() Although we have heard of the music of J.S. ![]()
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