Credits:

Various Artists

Description:

J.S. Bach reigns as a special figure in the history of motet music of his predecessors, whom Bach also studied. As a young man, he actively studied the music of the previous 100 years or so, and was an avid student of traditional music. While in Leipzig, he also acquired a collection of motets compiled by Erhard Bodenschatz in the early 17th century. This disc contains music from Bodenschatz's motet collection, which is exactly the kind of German and Italian music that Bach would have studied. King International