BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2014.a808508
P. Williams
{"title":"What is it to Write a Biography of J.S. Bach?","authors":"P. Williams","doi":"10.1353/bach.2014.a808508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2014.a808508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"45 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48628806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22513/bach.51.1.0001
Christina Fuhrmann
{"title":"Editorial: Tribute to Dr. Elinore L. Barber","authors":"Christina Fuhrmann","doi":"10.22513/bach.51.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22513/bach.51.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49437376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2021.0016
Bradley M. Spiers
{"title":"Wendy Carlos: A Biography by Amanda Sewell (review)","authors":"Bradley M. Spiers","doi":"10.1353/bach.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"52 1","pages":"226 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41684724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2018.0024
Mick Lim Bing Nan
{"title":"A Mystery Unraveled: Who Composed the Gutenberg 300th Anniversary Cantata?","authors":"Mick Lim Bing Nan","doi":"10.1353/bach.2018.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2018.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Kantate auf die 300-Jahr-Feyer der Edlen Buchdruckerkunst (the Cantata for the 300th anniversary of the art of book printing, hereafter the Gutenberg Cantata) is an unattributed manuscript from Die Sammlung Gorke in the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. This large, double-choir cantata has long been a subject of interest to scholars, but the circumstances of its composition and first performance have never been known. Now, however, a document has come to light that can answer these questions. My research has connected the Gutenberg Cantata with a performance in the Barfüßerkirche in Frankfurt am Main on 24 June 1740. I have determined that the music was composed by Heinrich Valentin Beck (1698–1758), then Frankfurt's Vice-Kapelldirector of Music. Beck is virtually forgotten, save for a dissertation by Bodo Wolf from 1911 and an article by Werner Menke from 1942. Only one other work, the early cantata Ich schicke mich zu meinem Ende, is currently firmly attributed to Beck. Wolf argued that six works attributed to Telemann were actually written by Beck, a testament to the similarities between Beck's and Telemann's compositional styles. Wolf's thesis, however, was discredited by Menke, and the Gutenberg Cantata thus offers one of two rare instances of a verifiable, original composition by Beck. It also reveals the importance that contemporaries accorded Gutenberg's invention of the printing press three centuries earlier, an event that was celebrated with elaborate ceremonies across Germany. This article illuminates the sources and context for this unusual cantata, whose origins have to this point been shrouded in mystery, and allows us to reassess Beck's role in the musical life of Frankfurt.","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"49 1","pages":"402 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43734242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2021.0014
Mark A. Peters
{"title":"J. S. Bach's Material and Spiritual Treasures: A Theological Perspective by Noelle M. Heber (review)","authors":"Mark A. Peters","doi":"10.1353/bach.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"52 1","pages":"233 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42016100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2015.a808473
Don O. Franklin
{"title":"\"Recht Glauben, Christlig Leben, Seelig Sterben\": Johann Olearius and the Libretto of Cantata 67","authors":"Don O. Franklin","doi":"10.1353/bach.2015.a808473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2015.a808473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"46 1","pages":"2 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42105413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22513/bach.51.1.0122
Robin A. Leaver
{"title":"History Past and Present: Celebrating Two Milestones of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem","authors":"Robin A. Leaver","doi":"10.22513/bach.51.1.0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22513/bach.51.1.0122","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article, which began life as a lecture at the Bethlehem Bach Festival in 2018, was mainly intended as a celebration of Greg Funfgeld's thirty-five years as the conductor and artistic director of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem—significantly longer than any other conductor of the Choir. But it was necessary to put this achievement into the context of the origins of the Bethlehem Bach Festival—how the concern to hear the major works of the Leipzig Kantor led to this annual tradition of performing not only the vocal works of Bach but also his orchestral and chamber music, as well as his keyboard and organ music. When Funfgeld became the conductor of the Choir, its performances were concentrated in two weeks in early May each year. Under his leadership, spring and Christmas concerts were soon added; then there were performances in schools, then lunchtime concerts, recordings, tours, and other opportunities for performing Bach. A subplot of the Funfgeld years in Bethlehem continues to be the influence of Westminster Choir College, where Funfgeld studied, and where others of his collaborators were either faculty or students, including myself, who in 2018 brought to an end thirty-four years of writing program notes for concerts and liner notes for recordings of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. It seems appropriate that such milestones should be recorded in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, which celebrates its half century this year.","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"51 1","pages":"122 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47506320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22513/BACH.52.1.0062
Peter Wollny
{"title":"“they can bring me much honor even after my death”: C. P. E. Bach as Compiler of His Estate Catalogue","authors":"Peter Wollny","doi":"10.22513/BACH.52.1.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22513/BACH.52.1.0062","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the last decade of his life, C. P. E. Bach was much concerned with his place in music history. In various letters he talks about his “swan song” (the oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu), about plans to complete his oeuvre, and about destroying his juvenile pieces. Parallel to this, he must have worked intensively on a new comprehensive catalogue of his own works, which replaced older inventories and eventually served as the basis for the Nachlaß Verzeichnis published by his heirs in 1790. Bach designed a chronological numbering system for his contributions to various genres of instrumental music, while the vocal works were registered in a less systematic fashion. The numbers and references to the place and date of composition found in the Nachlaß Verzeichnis correspond with entries on the title pages of his autograph manuscripts, the so-called house copies. An analysis of these entries shows that Bach’s work was guided not only by the principle of bibliographic correctness, but also by his aim to shape the recognition of his identity and public persona as well as his accomplishments as a composer for posterity.","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"52 1","pages":"62 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46851171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BACHPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/bach.2011.a820294
Robin A. Leaver
{"title":"Suggestions for Future Research into Bach and the Chorale: Aspects of Repertoire, Pedagogy, Theory, and Practice","authors":"Robin A. Leaver","doi":"10.1353/bach.2011.a820294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bach.2011.a820294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42367,"journal":{"name":"BACH","volume":"42 1","pages":"40 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48448282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}