Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Kennicott, Philip

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It...
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Author: Philip Kennicott
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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Kennicott, Philip

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

Dhs. 176.46

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

Dhs. 176.46
Author: Philip Kennicott
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach's music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood.

He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach's compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?



Author: Philip Kennicott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393635362


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019 pg. 59
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 12

About the Author
Kennicott, Philip: - Philip Kennicott, the senior art and architecture critic of the Washington Post and a former contributing editor for the New Republic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2013. He lives in Washington, DC.

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