Bøger af Christoph Wolff

In this biography, published on the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, the author demonstrates the connection between the composer's life and music, showing how his inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar and teacher.

This biography (first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death) presents a picture of the composer that demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.

This collection of songs (Wq 200) by C.P.E. Bach was compiled in the last year of the composer's life and published the year after he died. It contains 21 songs and a cantata for solo voice and keyboard. The German texts, drawn from a variety of poets, are translated and published in this volume.

This volume contains twenty secular songs (first published in 1762, that C.P.E. Bach wrote over the course of two decades, and includes three revised versions and English translations of the complete texts by Pamela Dellal.

Mozart's unfinished Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery. Mozart undertook the commission for an Austrian nobleman, little knowing that he was to write a requiem for himself. Inevitably, the secrecy surrounding the anonymous commission, the circumstances of Mozart's death, the unfinished state of the work, and its completion under the direction of Mozart's widow, Constanze, have precipitated two centuries of romantic speculation and scholarly controversy.Christoph Wolff provides a critical introduction to the Requiem in its many facets. Part I of his study focuses on the tangled genesis and completion of the work and its fascinating early reception history until Constanze's death. Wolff summarizes the current state of research on the subject, provides new perspectives on Mozart's conception of the whole work, and surveys his contributions to the movements composed posthumously by his assistant, Süssmayr. Part II provides a musical analysis of Mozart's composition, including contextual, structural, and interpretive aspects. Part III consists of an annotated collection of the principal literary documents (1791-1839) that illuminate the fascinating early history of the Requiem.The book concludes with a complete edition of the work that is at the center of Wolff's study, the authentic score of the Requiem-Mozart's fragment-supplemented by crucial excerpts from Süssmayr's 1792 Requiem completion.

Klavier, Gesang

An expansive tour of the instruments that Bach knew

W¿as bleibt? Johann Sebastian Bach gestaltete und verfeinerte sein reiches musikalisches Erbe sehr bewusst: Über Jahrzehnte hinweg trug er sorgfältig angelegte Sammlungen, Originaldrucke und reinschriftliche Partituren zusammen, mit denen er Maßstäbe setzen und der Nachwelt im Gedächtnis bleiben wollte - wie eine musikalische Autobiografie. Christoph Wolff porträtiert in seinem neuen Buch anhand dieser Referenzwerke Bachs bahnbrechende künstlerische Leistungen quer durch die verschiedenen Gattungen der Instrumental- und Vokalmusik: Präludien, Fugen und Orgelchoräle, Suiten, Sonaten und Konzerte sowie Kantaten, Passionen, Oratorien und Messen. Auf dieser imponierenden Strecke trieb Bach mit seiner musikalischen Logik und ausdrucksvollen Tonsprache die Kompositionsgeschichte voran.

City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music explores how space, urban life, landscape, and time transformed plainchant and other musical forms. Thirteen essays address a wide range of topics and regions--from Beneventan chant in Italy and Dalmatia, to music theory in medieval France, to later transformations of chant in Iceland and Spain.

More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.