Joshua Rifkin

Absolutely everyone knows this ragtime! As part of the film score for the crime caper "The Sting", "The Entertainer" became world-famous and set off a veritable Joplin renaissance in the 1970s. Americ...

This ragtime is impossible to overlook! For all that, Scott Joplin’s music was largely forgotten for a long time after his death in 1917, until 1970, when the young pianist and musicologist Joshua Rif...

150 Jahre Editionsgeschichte mussten vergehen, bis die h-moll-Messe endlich in einem Notentext erscheint, der so weit wie möglich wirklich auf Johann Sebastian Bachs 'Fassung letzter Hand' zurückgeht.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 is widely regarded as one of the most sublime masterpieces in music history—a magnificent synthesis of profound spirituality, contrapuntal brilliance, a...

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 is widely regarded as one of the most sublime masterpieces in music history. It took nearly 150 years of editorial history for this monumental compositi...