A woman's voice in baroque music

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"At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane 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." "A Woman s Voice in Baroque Music is the first book to deal in depth with issues of women in music in relation to Bach, and one of the few comprehensive studies of a specific repertory of Bach's sacred cantatas. It therefore provides a significant new perspective on both Ziegler as poet and cantata librettist and Bach as cantata composer."--Jacket.

subjects: German Women poets,  Women poets, German,  Music, baroque,  Women musicians,  MUSIC,  Instruction & Study,  Voice,  Lyrics,  Printed Music,  Vocal,  Cantatas (Bach, Johann Sebastian)

People: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),  Mariane von Ziegler

Times: 18th century