We are pleased to share that alum James A. Brokaw II, PhD 1986, published a translation of Hans-Joachim Schulze's Die Bach-Kantaten. Einführnungen zu sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs on May 7.
A selection of the 225 essays appears in a print volume published by University of Illinois Press, and the entire set of essays is available in a companion digital edition hosted by Illinois Open Publishing Network.
Learn more about the print and digital editions below:
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach; A Selective Guide
"Internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this collection, James A. Brokaw II translates a selection of the essays, illuminating a wide range of biographical and cultural features of Bach’s life and creative milieu. Schulze’s lively and engaging discussions provide a wealth of rewarding insights and perspectives focusing on individual cantatas, their texts, and the questions of chronology and context that attend them."
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Guide
"In 1990 Hans-Joachim Schulze, preeminent worldwide authority on the music of JS Bach, began a weekly series of radio broadcasts on all the cantatas by Bach then known to be extant. The series was quite popular, was repeated several times, and in 2006 Schulze published his scripts as a volume on all the Bach cantatas. In this digital edition hosted by IOPN, a companion to a printed volume of selected commentaries published by University of Illinois Press, James A. Brokaw II provides English translations of all of the essays on the Scalar platform with tools for searching, sorting and bundling the essays by date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, secular patron and occasion, librettist and other parameters."