Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach

A Selective Guide

Hans-Joachim Schulze, James A. Brokaw

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University of Illinois Press
01 May 2024

Music reviews & criticism; Choral music; Sacred & religious music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; European history

Internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this collection, James A. Brokaw II translates a selection of the essays, illuminating a wide range of biographical and cultural features of Bach’s life and creative milieu. Schulze’s lively and engaging discussions provide a wealth of rewarding insights and perspectives focusing on individual cantatas, their texts, and the questions of chronology and context that attend them.

The University of Illinois Press has paired the volume with a special web-based companion overseen by the translator and hosted by the Illinois Open Publishing Network. This online resource includes Brokaw’s translations of all 225 of Schulze’s essays alongside digital tools for searching, sorting, and bundling the commentaries according to date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, and librettist.

By: Hans-Joachim Schulze
Translated by: James A. Brokaw
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252087929
ISBN 10: 0252087925
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hans-Joachim Schulze is the leading authority on the music of Bach and its source traditions, on which he has authored over 500 books and articles. James A. Brokaw II is an independent scholar and translator.

Reviews for Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Selective Guide

“Absolute top-of-the-line scholarship. Schulze’s interests and concerns are always interesting and well handled, and well rendered into English by Brokaw. Schulze is an excellent scholar at finding new historical sources and information--indeed, on the wide ranges and types of historical/archival Bach documents, Schulze is by far the greatest authority that there has ever been in Bach studies.”--Michael Marissen, author of Bach against Modernity