BACH’ S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Book ID/图书代码： 02920005B02980

English Summary/英文概要： Johann Gottlieb Goldberg is a young servant in the employ of Count Keyserlingk. A talented musician, the boy secretly practices playing the harpsichord at night. When the count discovers Goldberg one evening, he challenges Goldberg to combine all the harpsichord music he’s learned--and to throw in a riddle. In a panic, Goldberg turns to Johann Sebastian Bach for the perfect piece of music to appease the count. Stylized illustrations include elements from the baroque period. For families, teachers, and curious music lovers of all ages.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： * 巴哈的“歌德堡變奏曲"(安眠曲)的由來for children * 書附上CD收錄“歌德堡變奏曲"

Awards/获奖情况：K-Gr. 3. Count Keyserlingk is brought to a church in Gdansk, Poland, by Bach in 1737 to hear a young orphan named Goldberg play the organ. Bach asks the count to care for the boy, who is placed in the count’s household and cadges time at the harpsichord when he can. When the sleepless count hears the boy practicing late one night, he asks him to play something "that makes your heart pound and your fingers race." The boy doesn’t know anything like that, and the count gives him a week to learn something. In desperation, Goldberg goes to Bach, who imparts quite a bit of musical knowledge about the variations he offers. Goldberg becomes the official harpsichordist, a kitchen boy no longer. The candy-colored ink-and-watercolor illustrations are a bit stiff, with many little cupids in diapers flitting about. But the story is wonderfully told in the tropes and manner of a folktale. A CD is provided, and children may enjoy picking out all the things in the Goldberg Variations that Bach wants us to hear. An informative author’s note gives the history behind the story. GraceAnne DeCandido Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About the Author/作者介绍： Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University. She is the author of several scholarly books - the most recent being Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). In addition to her scholarly work, she has authored a series of award-winning children’s books with Charlesbridge Publishing: The Farewell Symphony (2000), Pictures at an Exhibition (2003), The Heroic Symphony (2004), Bach’s Goldberg Variations (2005), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (2006), Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite (2011), Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (2012) and Saint Saen’s Danse macabre (2013). Her work has been featured on nationally syndicated radio and TV programs, including NPR’s "Performance Today," the BBC’s "Music Matters" and "Proms Broadcasts," and C-Span’s "Book-TV".

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