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This book offers readers new tools to understand how the music of J. S. Bach has been received by later generations. It focuses on the organ works, allowing readers to understand him as both composer and performer. The later generations here have championed the music in various ways: they performed it, edited it for publication, and shared it with their family and friends. This book thus is a history of performance practice, an aesthetic history of musical taste, and a social history.
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The music of J. S. Bach continues to be revered and celebrated centuries after his death. Its timelessness can be attributed to masterful musical engineering combined with profound expressivity. In other words, Bach’s unique art may represent the pinnacle of contrapuntal technique, but it is just as amazing for its depth of emotion. Bach’s compositions remain an indispensable part of the classical-music canon today.
The Afterlife of Bach’s Organ Works explores the critical impact made on posterity by Bach’s organ music. It concerns a diverse group of musicians and non-musicians alike–some famous, some forgotten–who in one way or another became champions of these compositions. These individuals performed the music; edited it for publication; promoted it by means of books, articles, and reviews; transcribed it for other media; taught it to their pupils; shared it with their family and friends; and incorporated it into the soundtracks of their motion pictures. They ensured its „afterlife.”
In five chapters, organist and Bach expert Russell Stinson traces the historical afterlife of Bach’s organ music from the early nineteenth century–the era of the so-called Bach revival–to the present day. Engagingly written and containing a wealth of information previously unavailable in English, the book is a history of performance practice, an aesthetic history of musical taste, and a social history. Each chapter tells the story of how and why Bach’s organ works have stood the test of time.
Stinson’s book fills a critical lacuna in Bachreception history, uncovering additional primary sources, including previously unknown performances and reviews, and delimiting the concatenation between composer and other agents of reception.Ultimately, of course, the nexus represented by Bach’s role as composer, performer, and pedagogue is most informed by appraisal of the changingcultural landscape in which his music has been received by successive generations. Stinson’s work opens up the possibilities for renewed inquiry into such an issue, encouraging the reader to reevaluate Bach and his music on terms that recognize the rich complexity of his life and the times in which he lived.
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Introduction
1. Studies and Discoveries
2. On the Reception of Bach’s Organ Works in Nineteenth-Century Leipzig: Rochlitz, Becker, Schellenberg, and Their Reviews of Two Early Editions
3. Karl Gottlieb Freudenberg’s Erinnerungen aus dem Leben eines alten Organisten and Bach Reception in the Nineteenth Century
4. Bach Goes to Hollywood: The Use of His Music in Motion Pictures
5. New Data and New Insights: Ten Case Studies
Epilogue
References
Index
