
Bach's Keyboard Music
A Listener's Guide
Victor Lederer(Author)
Amadeus Press
Published on 1. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-57467-182-7 (ISBN)
Description
Along with Beethoven's sonatas and the purely idiomatic works for piano of Chopin and Debussy the solo keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach represents the heart of the pianist's repertory; in the more specialized field of music for the organ Bach's primacy seems beyond challenge. This listener's guide to Bach's music for the keyboard provides the interested amateur with a close but non-technical look at these two crucial parts of the master's oeuvre. The composer's tendency to work exhaustively in tightly structured formats ae such as the 48 preludes and fugues of EThe Well-Tempered ClavierE ae provides a natural framework for this study; but the power beauty high polish and occasionally the sheer strangeness of Bach's imagination are carefully examined as well.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57467-182-7 (9781574671827)
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Victor Lederer (New York, NY) is a New York-based writer on music and urban history. His books include Chopin: A Listener's Guide to the Master of the Piano and Debussy: The Quiet Revolutionary for Amadeus Press's Unlocking the Masters series, and a study of Bach's St. Matthew Passion for Continuum Books.