J. S. Bach — Volume I
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- J. S. Bach — Volume I
- Author
- Albert Schweitzer
- Translator
- Ernest Newman
- Publisher
- Breitkopf & Härtel
- Place
- London / Leipzig
- Year
- 1911
- Original publication
- Expanded German edition, 1908
- Language
- English, translated from German
- Type
- Biography / aesthetics / performance and works study
- Notes
- English translation in two volumes by Ernest Newman.
SCOPE & CONTENT
Schweitzer’s study combines biography, aesthetics, theology, performance practice and detailed discussion of the works. Volume I establishes the historical and intellectual framework and develops the author’s famous interpretive ideas about musical symbolism, pictorialism and the relationship between text and motive in Bach’s vocal music.
RESEARCH VALUE
Although many analytical generalizations are historically dated, the book is indispensable for twentieth-century Bach reception and performance history. Schweitzer was also a major organist and organ-reform advocate, so his comments document changing ideals of Bach performance as much as they analyze the scores.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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RESEARCH VALUE AND LIMITS
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- Format
- File size
- 12.4 MB
- Subjects / people
- Books & Essays · Composers · Johann Sebastian Bach · Essays & Reception
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields