6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
5:44 a.m.
Brad Fuller wrote:
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
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.
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David
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On 4/5/07, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com>
wrote:
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. Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
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. 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.