Engaging Bach: The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521651608)

More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.

Author: Matthew Dirst
ISBN-10: 0521651603
ISBN-13: 9780521651608
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2012
Pages: 202
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 0.60d