Bach's Keyboard Music: A Listener's Guide [With CD (Audio)] (Other) (ISBN-13: 9781574671827)

Along with Beethoven's sonatas and the purely idiomatic works for piano of Chopin and Debussy, the solo keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach represents the heart of the pianist's repertory; in the more specialized field of music for the organ, Bach's primacy seems beyond challenge. This listener's guide to Bach's music for the keyboard provides the interested amateur with a close but non-technical look at these two crucial parts of the master's oeuvre. The composer's tendency to work exhaustively in tightly structured formats - such as the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier - provides a natural framework for this study; but the power, beauty, high polish, and occasionally the sheer strangeness of Bach's imagination are carefully examined as well.

Author: Victor Lederer
ISBN-10: 1574671820
ISBN-13: 9781574671827
Publisher: Amadeus
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Format: Other
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

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