Bach Perspectives, Volume 14: Bach and Mozart

Connections, Patterns, and Pathways

Paul Corneilson

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780252044663
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252053689
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Classical Music

Today, the names Bach and Mozart are mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But this volume of Bach Perspectives offers essays on the lesser-known musical figures who share those illustrious names alongside new research on the legendary composers themselves. Topics include the keyboard transcriptions of J. S. Bach and Johann Gottfried Walther; J. S. Bach and W. A. Mozart's freelance work; the sonatas of C. P. E. Bach and Leopold Mozart; the early musical training given J. C. Bach by his father and half-brother; the surprising musical similarities between J. C. Bach and W. A. Mozart; and the latest documentary research on Mozart's 1789 visit to the Thomasschule in Leipzig.

An official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives, Volume 14 draws on a variety of approaches and a broad range of subject matter in presenting a new wave of innovative classical musical scholarship.

Contributors: Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Yoel Greenberg, Noelle M. Heber, Michael Maul, Stephen Roe, and David Schulenberg

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• The Keyboard Transcriptions of J. S. Bach and J. G. Walther
• Precedents for the “Secondary Development” from Bach to Mozart and Their Implications for Understanding Early Sonata Form
• A Pursuit of Wealth: The Freelance Endeavors of Bach and Mozart
• Johann Christian Bach’s German Heritage
• Mozart, J. C. Bach, and the Bach Tradition
• Doles and the Prefect of the Choir: New Observations on Mozart’s Visit to the Thomasschule
• Contributors
• General Index
• Index of Works
• Back Cover