Johann Sebastian Bach created some of the most significant music in history, including A Keyboard Practice Consisting of an Aria with Thirty Variations for the Harpsichord—commonly known as the Goldberg Variations. Goldberg is Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, a young musician in the court of Count Keyserlingk, a Russian ambassador living in Dresden. It isn’t known for certain why Bach’s difficult composition was named for the young man, but Anna Harwell Celenza gives us one possible story based on extensive research.
- ISBN13 9781570915109
- Publish Date 1 August 2007 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
- Pages 32
- Language English