The English Bach AwakeningAuthor :
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Published : Wednesday 23 November 2016
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The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bachs music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called the English Bach revival, but that is a misnomer. Revival implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been made in England during his lifetime (1685-1750). The book begins with a comprehensive chronology of the English Bach Awakening. Eight chapters follow, written by Dr Philip Olleson, Dr Yo Tomita and the editor, which treat particular parts of the Awakening and show how they developed. A focus of the book is the history of the manuscripts and the printed editions of Bachs 48 - the Well-tempered Clavier - in England at this time, and its culmination in the analysed edition that Samuel Wesley and Charles Frederick Horn published in 1810-1813 and later revised. Wesleys multifaceted role in the Bach Awakening is detailed, as are the several efforts that were made to translate Forkels biography of Bach into English. A chapter is devoted to A.F.C. Kollmanns endeavour to prove the regularity of Bachs Chromatic Fantasy, and the book concludes with a discussion of portraits of Bach in England before 1830.
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