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The Cambridge Companion to Bach / edited by John Butt.
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1. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 16851750.2 I . Butt, John.
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Malcolm Boyd has recently retired as senior lecturer at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His major study of Bach (Dent, 1983) has become perhaps the most important general book on the composers life and works in the English language. He has also written a seminal study of D. Scarlatti (1986) and contributed to the New Grove dictionaries. His latest study of the Bach Brandenburg concertos has recently been published by Cambridge University Press.

Werner Breig is professor of musicology at the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum. He has been responsible for much of the new edition of Heinrich Schtz and his Bach research has centred mainly on the organ music and concertos. His articles (largely in German publications) present some of the most important research on the chronology of Bachs concertos in recent years.

John Butt has held positions at Aberdeen University and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is now associate professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. His career centres on both performance and musicological research; three books on Bach have already been published by Cambridge University Press, the latest being a survey of the educational background to practical music during the German Baroque. He has made seven solo recordings on organ and harpsichord for Harmonia Mundi.

Stephen A. Crist is associate professor at Emory University. His articles have appeared in Early Music, Bach Studies (Cambridge University Press), Bach Perspectives, College Music Symposium and other publications. He has also published a facsimile edition of a rare Low German hymnal dating from Luthers lifetime and is working on a book on the Bach arias.

Stephen Daw is a principal lecturer at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the music faculty of the University of Central England. He has pursued a research career in the field of Bach for nearly thirty years. His publications include a book on the vocal works and a seminal article on the Walther/Krebs manuscripts of organ music. He has also written articles on Bach reception in England and an introduction to a facsimile edition of Bachs autograph of the Well-tempered Clavier Book II.

Laurence Dreyfus , Thurston Dart professor of performance studies in music and head of department at Kings College London, began his career in Bach studies with a ground-breaking examination of Bachs continuo practice (Harvard University Press); his latest book, for the same publisher, surveys the entire field of Bachian invention. He has also written extensively on the aesthetics of performance practice, new directions in musical analysis and on linguistic and hermeneutic approaches to music history. He concurrently pursues an international career as a gambist.

Richard D. P. Jones is a graduate of Oxford University and has subsequently taught at University College, Cardiff; in 1982 he was awarded the D. F. Tovey Memorial Prize for research. His publications include a volume for the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , a new edition of the complete works for violin and obbligato harpsichord and numerous editions for the Associated Board. His writings have been published in Music and Letters, The Musical Times and in a book on the work of Howard Ferguson. His edition of The Well-tempered Clavier was published in 1994 as a replacement to Toveys edition for the Associated Board.