Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work
by Martin Geck
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Author: Martin GeckTranslator: John Hargraves
Foreword: Kurt Masur
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-04
ISBN: 0151006482
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Book Review: A Biography and A Musical Analysis
Summary: 5 Stars
It's strange that with someone as famous as Bach that we really know very little about his personal life. In this book Martin Geck has written as much as we know, and has had to expand that with some of the generally accepted rumors. He has done a very good job in this area. That takes about a third of this book.
The other two thirds of the book is on Bach's music. In this area, the book is absolutely supurb. Mr. Geck has been a professor of musicology at Dormund University. He has written about the other German major composers and now has produced this masterpiece on Bach.
He covers every aspect of Bach's music from technique, to the impact on the listener. Surprisingly his analysis is not too technical so the average enthusiast can understant what he is saying. The last section of the book is called Horizons, and while fairly short (30 pages or so) he offers some opinions on Back's art, theology, symbolism and other aspects of his work that are seldom covered.
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