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About This Book
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion
By Hans-Joachim Schulze
Translated by James A. Brokaw II
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion is co-published by the University of Illinois Press (print and e-book) and Windsor & Downs Press (online digital edition, https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.21). Windsor & Downs Press, Urbana, Ill., is part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN). IOPN is a project of the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISBN: 978-1-946011-24-4
Please cite this book using the DOI 10.21900/wd.21.
Synopsis
In 1991 Hans-Joachim Schulze, preeminent worldwide authority on the music of JS Bach, began a weekly series of radio broadcasts that ran until 1994 on all the cantatas by Bach then known to be extant. The series was quite popular, was repeated several times, and in 2006 Schulze published his scripts as a volume on all the Bach cantatas. In this digital edition hosted by IOPN, a companion to a printed volume of selected commentaries published by University of Illinois Press, James A. Brokaw II provides English translations of all of the essays on the Scalar platform with tools for searching, sorting and bundling the essays by date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, secular patron and occasion, librettist and other parameters.Copyright
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion copyright © 2024 by University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except as otherwise indicated.
Funding Acknowledgment
Sponsored by the Ruth and Noel Monte Fund of the American Bach SocietyRuth and Noel Monte were deeply devoted to Bach and his music, sensing its great impact on the human brain and culture throughout the world. To them, Bach represents a bright planet appearing in the sky only once, requiring centuries for the human mind to observe and fully comprehend. The Monte Fund has the goal of supporting and promoting this living musical treasure for present and future generations.