

The chamber music ensemble - now in its 15th season - features founder, artistic director, and violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane harpsichordist Elisa Williams Bickers and guitarist Beau Bledsoe along with soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson.

Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bachs life. Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician 1: Bach was self-taught in music and not terribly well educated in other subjects. Wolff’s 2007 appearance at the Library also accompanied a Bach Aria Soloists concert. 21 March 1685 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. 1 in B minor for Violin, Toccata in D for harpsichord, and recitatives and arias from Cantata No. The longtime Harvard professor, whose first appearance in Kansas City drew a capacity crowd to the Library seven years ago, joins the Bach Aria Soloists, providing commentary and insight into Bach’s life and works throughout the ensemble’s musical presentation.Īmong other selections, the event will feature Bach’s Partita No. RSVPs are now closed at the presenters' request.Ī Pulitzer Prize finalist for his landmark biography of Johann Sebastian Bach and the former director of Germany’s renowned Leipzig Bach-Archiv, Christoph Wolff has towered for decades as the world’s preeminent authority on the great composer. Short Preludes, Fugues and Fughettas is a new Urtext edition of this crucial educational keyboard repertoire by the renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff (former Director of the Bach Archive Leipzig). 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.
