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I recommend (the book's life-and-works survey) strongly to all potential performers of and listeners to WFB's music... His musical points are well made...The concluding 'notes on performance' are stimulating too... Schulenberg's book will be the first point of information for anglophone readers. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW (Clifford Bartlett)

I recommend (the book's life-and-works survey) strongly to all potential performers of and listeners to WFB's music... His musical points are well made...The concluding 'notes on performance' are stimulating too... Schulenberg's book will be the first point of information for anglophone readers. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW (Clifford Bartlett) An enlightening contribution to the legacy and repertoire of the brilliant but somewhat obscure eldest son of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW (Nancy Lorraine)

Fascinating . . . Attractively produced . . . Numerous musical excerpts help promote not only an understanding of the chief features of W. F. Bach's personal style but also, by making frequent comparisons with works by JS Bach, CPE Bach, JG Graun, Telemann and others, illuminate the common ground and differences between the music of these 18th-century masters. EARLY MUSIC [Nigel Springthorpe] A kind of missionary venture, which [Schulenberg] fulfills with admirable success. . . . Refreshing in the self-conscious avoidance of evolutionary narratives. . . . A great step-or indeed jump-forward in the reception of Friedemann's music. Written in a thoroughly enjoyable, elegant style, and illustrated with copious music examples, it carries the reader away. FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE [Balazs Mikusi] A precious book, enriched with numerous musical examples. REVUE DE MUSICOLOGIE [Marc Vignal] Schulenberg, a respected early-music keyboard performer and [J. S.] Bach scholar, discusses Wilhelm Friedemann's extant works in detail, providing insightful analyses, useful notes on performance, and a lengthy works list. This book will be a welcome source for Bach research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. [ Three stars.] Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. CHOICE [D. Arnold] Comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and coherency. . . One admires the pragmatism and objectivity [and the] elegance and clarity of expression. AD PARNASSUM: A JOURNAL OF EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC [Tanya Kovacevic] Impressive . . . [is] the whole-hearted use it makes of internet possibilities to provide not only much of the missing material in full score but also the ability to hear it. . . . Reveal[s] the full extent of WF's vocal and choral writing . . . [and suggests] that such music was intended for performance with a single singer on each line. . . . Gathers together some pertinent observations on performance. BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [Christopher Hogwood] [A] most intricate and scholarly account about a composer whose life and works remain tantalizing mystery. STRINGENDO, Volume 33, Nr 2, October 2011 Schulenberg has a grasp of music's grammar not often met with in current musicology [.] There is something touching about Friedemann's originalities [.] Here one can fancy him swerving away from previous composers. MUSICAL TIMES, Autumn 2011

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