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Author Gardiner, John Eliot.

Title Bach : music in the castle of heaven / John Eliot Gardiner.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  780.92 GARDINER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BACH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  780.92 BACH GAR    Missing
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG BACH, JOHANN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  780.92 GARDINER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  780.92 BACH G    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description xxxiv, 628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
Note "Originally published in Great Britain as Music in the Castle of Heaven by Allen Lane" -- Title page verso.
Summary From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters, a landmark study which explains in ... detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Contents Under the cantor's gaze -- Germany on the brink of enlightenment -- The Bach gene -- The class of '85 -- The mechanics of faith -- The incorrigible cantor -- Bach at his workbench -- Cantatas or coffee? -- Cycles and seasons -- First Passion -- His "Great Passion" -- Collision and collusion -- The habit of perfection -- "Old Bach."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-599) and index.
Subject Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
Added Title Music in the castle of heaven
Music in the castle of heaven
ISBN 9780375415296 hardback
0375415297 hardback
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