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George B. Stauffer

George B. Stauffer is Distinguished Professor of Music History and Dean Emeritus of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers. He is the author of Bach: The Mass in B Minor, among other books. (June 2022)

Alban Berg’s Dissonances

Berg’s music, with its lyrical combination of tonal and atonal techniques, is closer to late Romanticism than to the strict modernism of his contemporaries Schoenberg and Webern.

Berg

by Bryan Simms and Charlotte Erwin

June 23, 2022 issue

The Master Recycler

Around 1730 Johann Sebastian Bach began to recycle his earlier works in a major way.

Listening to Bach: The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio

by Daniel R. Melamed

December 20, 2018 issue

Hadleigh Adams (center) as Jesus in Jonathan Miller’s production of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, at the National Theatre, London, 2011

Emotional, Operatic Bach

Bach’s Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy

by Markus Rathey

June 9, 2016 issue

Max Klinger with his statue of Beethoven, Leipzig, circa 1902

Beethoven’s Symphonies: The Revolutions

Beethoven’s Symphonies: An Artistic Vision

by Lewis Lockwood

December 3, 2015 issue

Johann Sebastian Bach; painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1748

Why Bach Moves Us

John Eliot Gardiner’s ‘Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven’

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

by John Eliot Gardiner

February 20, 2014 issue

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