Bach's Musical Universe by Wolff, Christoph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents General Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: On the Primacy and Pervasiveness of Polyphony

The Composer’s Business Card

Chapter 1. Revealing the Narrative of a Musical Universe

The First List of Works from 1750

Size of the Estate Survival of Original Manuscripts Benchmark Works

Chapter 2. Transformative Approaches to Composition and Performance

Three Unique Keyboard Workbooks

Chapter 3. In Search of the Autonomous Instrumental Design

Toccata, Suite, Sonata, Concerto

At Home on Keyboards and Other Instruments The Inaugural Opus: Six Keyboard Toccatas Opus Collections from Weimar and Cöthen

Early Leipzig Reverberations

Six sonatas for harpsichord and violin Six trio sonatas for organ

Chapter 4. The Most Ambitious of All Projects

Chorale Cantatas throughout the Year

Background, Concept, and Schedule A Serial Opus

Opening movements Arias, recitatives, and final chorales

Incomplete and Yet Monumental

Chapter 5. Proclaiming the State of the Art in Keyboard Music

The Clavier-Übung Series

Chapter 6. A Grand Liturgical Messiah Cycle

Three Passions and a Trilogy of Oratorios

St. John Passion

Christ the King: “Herr, unser Herrscher” Man of Sorrows: “Betrachte, meine Seel” Christus Victor: “Es ist vollbracht” The different versions of the St. John Passion—a Note

St. Matthew Passion

Composer and librettist: A productive partnership The choir loft as virtual stage Human characters and emotions

St. Mark Passion The Oratorio Trilogy

Christmas Oratorio Easter Oratorio Ascension Oratorio

Chapter 7. In Critical Survey and Review Mode

Revisions, Transcriptions, Reworkings

Disposal vs. Preservation No Random Yield

The Great Eighteen Chorales for Organ The Six “Schübler” Chorales for Organ Harpsichord Concertos Kyrie-Gloria Masses The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part II

Chapter 8. Instrumental and Vocal Polyphony at Its Peak

Art of Fugue and B-minor Mass

The Art of Fugue Completed: The Manuscript Version Canonic Intermezzi

Fourteen Canons on the “Goldberg” Aria Canonic Variations on the Christmas song “Vom Himmel hoch” The canons of the Musical Offering

The Art of Fugue Unfinished: The Published Version The Mass in B Minor

A wide spectrum of styles for a timeless genre The parts and the whole

Legacy

Epilogue. “Praxis cum theoria”

Maxim of the Learned Musician

Chronology Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Genre Index of Bach’s Works Title Index of Bach’s Works General Index Also by Christoph Wolff Copyright