Music in the castle of heaven : a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Gardiner, John Eliot2014
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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? It is rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a such considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can.
Main title:
Music in the castle of heaven : a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach / John Eliot Gardiner.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Collation:
xxxiv, 628 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141977591 (pbk)
Local class:
B/BACH
Language:
English
BRN:
74689