The second letter of nowadays greek alphabet is 'Vita', not 'Beta'.īetter know, the 'Second 2nd' and 'Perfect 4th interval' are beta, the unissono is alpha. We can't prove it, but for a disappointment for some there was never 'Beta' in ancient Greece, a gross mistake for other languages, or wrong translated to Latin which is what we all adopt and that made all confusions for the western world. I don't know if you know, but in ancient Greek, writing, 'B' means life, It is amazing how the letter 'B' has strength, movement and life. I would like to invite all you to change your name:īabyface, Burt Bacharach, Claude Bolling, Count Basie, Beach Boys, Sidney Bechet, Art Blakey, Bon Jovi, Bee Gees, Chuck Berry, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Backstreet Boys etc.īizet, Berlioz, Boulez, Balakirev, Boccherini, Borodin, Bruckner, Benjamin Britten, Leo Brouwer, Ferruccio Busoni, Dietrich Buxtehude ( Bach organ teacher) - William Byrd, Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Babbit, Bellini, (woman in music: Hildegard von Bingen), betc. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.Īnd throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait.

Norton & Company, 2013 | 599 Pages | epub + pdf (conv.) | 9 MBįinalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.Īlthough we have heard the music of J.

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