J. S. Bach as Organist: His Instruments, Music, and Performance Practices

" . . . a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies . . . every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." -Early Keyboard Journal

Author: May Ernest
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780253213860
ISBN10: 025321386X
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Music | Musical Instruments | Piano & Keyboard
- Music | Genres & Styles | Classical

About the Author

George Stauffer is Associate Professor of Music History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY and organist of Columbia University. He is author of The Organ Preludes of Johann Sebastian Bach and of articles in Bach-Jahrbuch, Early Music, and The Organ Yearbook.

Ernest May is Associate Professor of Music History and Organ at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has edited Cantata 113 for the Neue Bach-Ausgabe and has contributed articles to the Harvard Dictionary of Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, and other publications.