Andrew Talle is Associate Professor of Music Studies at the Bienen School of Music of Northwestern University. He is the editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume Nine: Bach and His German Contemporaries.
"This book is an outstanding contribution to and expansion of our
factual knowledge base regarding eighteenth-century German musical
life, with emphasis on the keyboard." --BACH: Journal of the
Riemenschneider Bach Institute "This is a fascinating, readable,
and well-documented book. . . . Recommended."--Choice "This is a
book whose chief strength lies not in the conclusions it draws but
in the sheer documentary richness which it delivers, and in
bringing vividly to life dimensions of music and music-making which
have often been neglected."--British Clavichord Society Newsletter
"Talle discusses a rich, fascinating, hitherto largely inaccessible
source material, and presents it in the form of an engaging,
readable narrative, making this book not only appealing to
specialists, but also to a more general audience interested in
eighteenth-century German music and culture." --Eighteenth-Century
Music "Talle's Beyond Bach is rich in tales of those living and
working within a vibrant but largely forgotten musical culture who
loved this music by Bach and others, and who then recreated it by
means of a box of taut strings and ingenious levers."--Limelight
Magazine "For all its scrupulous erudition and factual density,
Talle's writing is eminently readable: unpretentious, lively, and
frequently humorous, as he reconstructs the routines and
conventions his subjects observed in their musical pursuits. These
included the role music played in their social, commercial, and
even erotic lives. At times the text reads like a soap opera; at
times it is almost a ribald, lascivious page-turner."--Robert L.
Marshall, Early Music America "Beyond Bach is a treasure trove of
information about the place of music making in the daily lives of
ordinary people in J.S. Bach's Germany. Andrew Talle's careful
selection of citations from his fascinating source materials is
woven together by easy-to-read prose, resulting in an entertaining
and enjoyable read. . . . [Beyond Bach] deserves a place among the
classics."--Swedish Journal of Music Research "I recommend [Beyond
Bach] for anybody with an interest in the composer and the world
that made him. 18th century Leipzig and its environs come to vivid
life -- men, women, music, politics, inns and palaces. We learn a
great deal about the "other" composers of the time, and Talle sends
us off in search of their music. Learned, sophisticated, not at all
condescending and sometimes very funny indeed, Talle's book is both
admirable scholarship and a great 'read.'"--Tim Page, University of
Southern California Thorton School of Music
"Beyond Bach is an indispensable text for lovers of
eighteenth-century music and anyone who seeks to understand the
broad social context of music not only by Bach but also by his
contemporaries and adversaries." --Notes
"Andrew Talle's fluent and friendly style brings it all to life in
a way that any Germanophile, and any lover of the Baroque, of Bach,
and of history would find an irresistible and rewarding read. Very
highly recommended!" --American Organist Magazine
"Andrew Talle provides a richly textured discussion of the roles
music played in the everyday." --Journal of the American Musicology
Society
"Excellently researched and well-presented and engaging. Little has
been done in approaching musicians of J. S. Bach's time in Germany
through the lens of social history. As one of the first books to do
this and to do it very well, Talle's volume marks a major
contribution to the field."--Mark Peters, author of A Woman's Voice
in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach
"Talle's study is meticulously researched and documented, making
excellent use of an impressively large number of primary and
secondary sources. There is currently nothing like it in any
language, and its significance goes well beyond Bach
studies."--Steven Zohn, author of Music for a Mixed Taste: Style,
Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
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