![]() ![]() ![]() Geck's discussion of Bach's musical style will surely send the reader unfamiliar with baroque style to a musical dictionaries. Geck gives arguments from data in a manner more of interest to fellow scholars than the generally educated reader, and he perhaps assumes more knowledge on the part of the reader than does Wolff. Wolff's was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has much more information about Bach's pre-Leipzig travels and career I think he makes Bach come to life somewhat better than Geck's, which is written in more of an academic style. If your patience is more limited than that, I would recommend the Wolff over the Geck, in spite of Mazur's endorsement. ![]() If you take the time to read them both you can learn pretty much everything that is currently known about Bach's life. 3-273) and a discussion of the music, genre by genre. Geck's book is divided into a biographical half (pp. He intends to complete a second volume, strictly about Bach's music. Wolff's is a biography only, though sometimes he cannot help himself and writes about the music as music. These are both learned works, by distinguished German scholars. ![]()
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