At 11:19 AM 5/26/2007, João Miguel Pais wrote: >By the way, JS Bach's music wasn't played almost at all in his last years, >and it pratically disappeared until Mendelsson picked it up later >(Beethoven and Mozart only got to some scores late in their lives). His >contemporaries found it too far-fetched and overfull with counterpoint (a >kind of nowadays Ferneyhough), and they found him already back of his time >(you know, just like a guy "who don't know what current public option is, >[is] out in the dark."), preferring his son's CPE's works. His violin >suites (which apparently he could play - anyone correct me) are obligatory >repertoire in any violinist who wants to live from his bowing nowadays, >were considered not suitable or natural for the instrument. Is that enough >of a hint for you about relativity, need of understanding, and not to >consider yourself as the center of the world?
I am just trying to point out what a majority of the people who actually listen to classical music think.
I don't know how many people today listen to classical music, maybe 10%? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
