02034cam a2200313 i 4500 623779830 TxAuBib 20190918120000.0 140220s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781400031436 1400031435 (OCoLC)870896583 YDXCP YDXCP eng eng rda rda YDXCP rda BTCTA rda YDXCP BDX OCLCQ NYP OCLCF TxAuBib BTCTA BDX OCLCQ NYP OCLCF TxAuBib rda Gardiner, John Eliot, author. Bach : Music in the Castle of Heaven / By John Eliot Gardiner. First Vintage Books edition. New York : Vintage Books, 2015. xxxiv, 629 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, music ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque-and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every day on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects-and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Book jacket. 20190918. Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750. Composers Germany Biography. Biographies. TXKPL