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'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

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

’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

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"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)."

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