In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
- ISBN10 0674060059
- ISBN13 9780674060050
- Publish Date 19 June 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 276
- Language English