This old chestnut is not really true. Bach's keyboard music, for
instance, never quite disappeared. And in Leipzig, he was well-known
and his music was studied and played. The Allgemeine musikalische
Zeitung (published by Breitkopf) has mentions of Bach's music as
early as the first volume, in 1798. The Traeg music catalogs of 1799
from Vienna list Bach's keyboard music, and that doesn't mean Traeg
acquired Bach's music in 1799, as it was the first catalog he'd ever
published (having been in business since the late 1780s).
What Mendelssohn rediscovered was the vocal music, but especially the
Passions. The cantatas as a body languished until the 20th century,
for the most part.
my bad, then. by the way, if you have them at hand's reach, could you
quote some references to the reception of this bach's music during and
after his life?
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