A Woman's Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane Von Ziegler and J. S. Bach

ISBN-13: 9781138254060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 210 str.

Mark A. Peters

Opis

At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariana von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been largely ignored in the Bach literature. Dr Mark Peters presents the first comprehensive account of this repertory, providing a significant new perspective on both Ziegler as poet and cantata librettist and Bach as cantata composer.

Recenzje

’Peters’ book is a testament that ... challenging some of the old established perceptions can be ... stimulating and continues to yield valuable new insights. Moreover, among the relatively small number of studies on the women in Bach’s life, which for the most part focus on Anna Magdalena, the present book represents an important factual contribution to a subject which in the past had more often belonged to the realm of fiction than historiography.’ Bach Bibliography ’Naturally, a musician's main interest in Ziegler is likely to be connected with the fact that she is one of the few librettists of Bach's cantatas of whom we know the name. Peters' project is to fill out the conventional image of Ziegler as an early feminist writer, and to assert that Bach probably did not, as has often been claimed, adapt her texts in his nine cantata settings of April to May 1725 but, on the contrary, set them in the form supplied to him by the author and, indeed, drew inspiration from their particular qualities.’ The Consort

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Mariane von Ziegler and J.S. Bach; Woman's voice: Mariane von Ziegler as poet; Anonymous voice: Mariane von Ziegler's sacred cantata texts; Divine voice: the significance of the Vox Christi for Ziegler and for Bach; The composer's voice: Bach's compositional procedures in the Ziegler cantatas; Woman's voice restored: the reception of the Ziegler cantatas and their significance in Bach's output; Appendices; Select bibliography; Indexes.

O autorze

Dr Mark A. Peters is Associate Professor of Music at Trinity Christian College, USA. His publications include articles in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and the monograph Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann (2003), with Samuel Hsu and Sidney Grolnic. In 2006, Peters received the William H. Scheide prize from the American Bach Society for his article, "A Reconsideration of Bach's Role as Text Redactor in the Ziegler Cantatas" (BACH, 2005).