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J. S. Bach's music has become omnipresent. As detailed in Erinn E. Knyt's staggeringly comprehensive book, even one work-the Goldberg Variations-has inspired thousands of reimaginings. In a dazzling display of bibliographic control, Knyt unearths every possible manifestation of the Goldbergs, whether as the inspiration for a ballet, the soundtrack of a film, or the impetus for new compositions. A vital reference work for Bach enthusiasts. * Christina Fuhrmann, Editor, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute * Erinn Knyt's exhaustive study of Bach's Goldberg Variations relates the multifaceted history of creative responses in all artistic media to Bach's protean masterpiece: from romantic extravagance to scrupulous textual fidelity to uninhibited 'deconstructions.' The wide-ranging inquiry - a model of reception history at its most enlightening - helps us especially to understand how the radical developments in recent decades reflect far-reaching changes in ideological and aesthetic outlook that question the very nature and purpose of great works of art. * Robert L. Marshall, Sachar Professor of Music emeritus, Brandeis University * In this intensive case study, Erinn Knyt shows that the reception history of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations extends far beyond versions, editions, and performance practices. Taken up by composers, choreographers, filmmakers, dramatists, and visual artists, this set of keyboard variations has been transformed from a closed work to an open one; from a purely musical composition to an interdisciplinary starting point for many arts; and from the product of a mathematical, 'Pythagorean' composer to a creation by a very human Bach. From Feruccio Busoni to Glenn Gould to Hannibal Lecter to TikTok, the Goldberg Variations emerge as a work not just of the eighteenth century but of every era. * Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University and the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project *

J. S. Bach's music has become omnipresent. As detailed in Erinn E. Knyt's staggeringly comprehensive book, even one work-the Goldberg Variations-has inspired thousands of reimaginings. In a dazzling display of bibliographic control, Knyt unearths every possible manifestation of the Goldbergs, whether as the inspiration for a ballet, the soundtrack of a film, or the impetus for new compositions. A vital reference work for Bach enthusiasts. * Christina Fuhrmann, Editor, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute * Erinn Knyt's exhaustive study of Bach's Goldberg Variations relates the multifaceted history of creative responses in all artistic media to Bach's protean masterpiece: from romantic extravagance to scrupulous textual fidelity to uninhibited 'deconstructions.' The wide-ranging inquiry - a model of reception history at its most enlightening - helps us especially to understand how the radical developments in recent decades reflect far-reaching changes in ideological and aesthetic outlook that question the very nature and purpose of great works of art. * Robert L. Marshall, Sachar Professor of Music emeritus, Brandeis University * In this intensive case study, Erinn Knyt shows that the reception history of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations extends far beyond versions, editions, and performance practices. Taken up by composers, choreographers, filmmakers, dramatists, and visual artists, this set of keyboard variations has been transformed from a closed work to an open one; from a purely musical composition to an interdisciplinary starting point for many arts; and from the product of a mathematical, 'Pythagorean' composer to a creation by a very human Bach. From Feruccio Busoni to Glenn Gould to Hannibal Lecter to TikTok, the Goldberg Variations emerge as a work not just of the eighteenth century but of every era. * Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University and the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project * Impressive research is evident throughout; for example, a compendium of film soundtracks that include Goldberg bits is startlingly thorough. The book, lovely to read, is ideal for libraries with collections in the arts. * B. J. Murray, CHOICE *

"""J. S. Bach's music has become omnipresent. As detailed in Erinn E. Knyt's staggeringly comprehensive book, even one work-the Goldberg Variations-has inspired thousands of reimaginings. In a dazzling display of bibliographic control, Knyt unearths every possible manifestation of the Goldbergs, whether as the inspiration for a ballet, the soundtrack of a film, or the impetus for new compositions. A vital reference work for Bach enthusiasts."" -- Christina Fuhrmann, Editor, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute ""Erinn Knyt's exhaustive study of Bach's Goldberg Variations relates the multifaceted history of creative responses in all artistic media to Bach's protean masterpiece: from romantic extravagance to scrupulous textual fidelity to uninhibited 'deconstructions.' The wide-ranging inquiry - a model of reception history at its most enlightening - helps us especially to understand how the radical developments in recent decades reflect far-reaching changes in ideological and aesthetic outlook that question the very nature and purpose of great works of art."" -- Robert L. Marshall, Sachar Professor of Music emeritus, Brandeis University ""In this intensive case study, Erinn Knyt shows that the reception history of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations extends far beyond versions, editions, and performance practices. Taken up by composers, choreographers, filmmakers, dramatists, and visual artists, this set of keyboard variations has been transformed from a closed work to an open one; from a purely musical composition to an interdisciplinary starting point for many arts; and from the product of a mathematical, 'Pythagorean' composer to a creation by a very human Bach. From Feruccio Busoni to Glenn Gould to Hannibal Lecter to TikTok, the Goldberg Variations emerge as a work not just of the eighteenth century but of every era."" -- Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University and the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project"

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Erinn E. Knyt is Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Knyt specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth- century music, aesthetics, music history pedagogy, Bach Reception, and performance studies. Her first book (2017), explores Ferruccio Busoni's pedagogical practices and his relationship with early and mid-career composition mentees. It was awarded an AMS 75 Pays Endowment Book Subvention. Knyt's second book, Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound (2023), which also received an American Musicological Society Book Subvention, discusses Busoni's innovations as a composer in relation to contemporaneous architectural trends. Knyt was also awarded the 2018 American Musicological Society Teaching Award.

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