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In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
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Laurence Dreyfus is Thurston Dart Professor of Performance Studies and Head of the Music Department at King's College, London. He is the author of Bach's Continuo Group from Harvard University Press and a noted viola da gambist and cellist.
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