[LAU] Re: Re: Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- musicisjustone path

[Brad Fuller]

Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 4/5/07, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
>> > Ken Restivo escribe:
>> >> IIRC, some of Bach's music was considered too chromatic and
>> >> dissonant at the time.
>> >
>> > I would consider amazing that you Remember Correctly what happened in
>> > Bach's era. ;)
>>
>> There are writings from Bach's time, from other musicians and such
>> anti-musicians as Critics ;-), in which people of his time expressed
>> their opinions of his music. I believe that the legendary Toccata &
>> Fugue in Dminor BWV 565 was considered unpleasantly daring and dramatic.
>> After all, Bach was a young whippersnapper at the time.
>
> I always understood that JS Bach was fairly well-liked.  He made a
> living as a musician, unlike 99.99% of the people alive at the time.
That was my understanding as well - that is: his music was well liked. 
In fact, as he aged, he gained quite a reputation around and outside the 
country.

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