J. S. Bach, Volume TwoIndependent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's "J. S. Bach" is one of the great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its influence on the subsequent performace of Bach's music was enormous, and there is scarcely a later work on Bach which does not acknowledge a deep debt to Schweitzer's. Grove's Dictionary says of the book, "Schweitzer has probably been more quoted than any authority since Spitta." |
Contents
Bach and Aesthetics | 1 |
Poetic Music and Pictorial Music 725 | 7 |
Word and Tone in Bach 2556 | 25 |
The Musical Language of | 56 |
The Musical Language of the 74122 | 74 |
The Arnstadt Mühlhausen | 122 |
The Leipzig Cantatas of 1723 | 148 |
The Magnificat and the St John | 166 |
The Trauerode and the St Mat | 203 |
The Cantatas of the Years | 232 |
The Secular Cantatas 261294 | 261 |
The Motets and Songs 294301 | 294 |
The Oratorios 302311 | 302 |
The Masses 311328 | 311 |
The Cantatas after 1734 328378 | 328 |
The Performance of the Canta | 379 |
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