"At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been Largely ignored in the Ba…
"At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been Largely ignored in the Ba…
In 1724 J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760), Germany's first female poet laureate. This book highlights her significance in early eighteenth-century Germany and her commitment to advancing women's rights of self-expres…
"At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been Largely ignored in the Ba…
"Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand recitals throughout Europe and the United States, met Claude Debussy in 1908, when he received the composer's enthusiastic approval for his transcription for violin and piano of the song "II pleur…
"Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J.S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with…