Full Description
Today, the names Bach and Mozart are mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But this volume of Bach Perspectives offers essays on the lesser-known musical figures who share those illustrious names alongside new research on the legendary composers themselves. Topics include the keyboard transcriptions of J. S. Bach and Johann Gottfried Walther; J. S. Bach and W. A. Mozart's freelance work; the sonatas of C. P. E. Bach and Leopold Mozart; the early musical training given J. C. Bach by his father and half-brother; the surprising musical similarities between J. C. Bach and W. A. Mozart; and the latest documentary research on Mozart's 1789 visit to the Thomasschule in Leipzig. An official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives, Volume 14 draws on a variety of approaches and a broad range of subject matter in presenting a new wave of innovative classical musical scholarship.
Contributors: Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Yoel Greenberg, Noelle M. Heber, Michael Maul, Stephen Roe, and David Schulenberg
Contents
Preface Abbreviations
The Keyboard Transcriptions of J. S. Bach and J. G. Walther
BY ELEANOR SELFRIDGE-FIELD
Precedents for the "Secondary Development" from Bach to Mozart and Their Implications for Understanding Early Sonata Form 23
BY YOEL GREENBERG
A Pursuit of Wealth: The Freelance Endeavors of Bach and Mozart
BY NOELLE M. HEBER
Johann Christian Bach's German Heritage
BY STEPHEN ROE
Mozart, J. C. Bach, and the Bach Tradition
BY DAVID SCHULENBERG
Doles and the Prefect of the Choir: New Observations on Mozart's Visit to the Thomasschule
BY MICHAEL MAUL
Contributors
General Index
Index of Works
