The Organ Music of J. S. Bach

Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, the first two volumes of Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works are fully revised. This work is a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV): beginning with the sonatas, followed by the free works and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the newly discovered chorales of 1985.

Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.28lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.78w x 1.24d
ISBN: 9780521891158

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 112

About the Author
Williams, Peter: - Peter Williams (1937-2016) was an internationally renowned Bach scholar and performer. He was Professor of Performance Practice and the first Director of the Russell Collection of Harpsichords at the University of Edinburgh, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Duke University, North Carolina, and John Bird Professor at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He wrote numerous books on the organ, organ history and organ repertoire. The first edition of The Organ Music of J. S. Bach was published in 1980 (Volumes 1 and 2) and 1984 (Volume 3).

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