Description: 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.
Brief description: Christoph Wolff is Adams University Research Professor at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: Wolff has [produced] fundamental work about the composer, from his earliest music ('newly discovered chorales') to his last (Art of Fugue, parts of the B Minor Mass), sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, all represented in this book... Every one of these essays...has the knack of presenting new information that triggers further thought... One does constantly sense a fresh conception of the composer.--Peter Williams "Times Literary Supplement"