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

[david]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> 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.

I didn't say he was disliked or anything, but not all of his 
compositions were necessarily well thought of. Also, he was much more 
highly thought of as an organist than a composer.

He wrote the Brandenburg concerti as an audition for a job - but he 
didn't get it because it was too old-fashioned for people.

-- 
David
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