In a message dated 4/26/2006 9:21:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bach was lost for nearly a century before the Romantics (that's the musical term) picked him up and made him popular again. ****************** Not really. The Well Tempered Clavier and the partitas and clavier suites were essential to everyone learning to play the piano [or harpsichord]. But the bulk of his work, the cantatas, were indeed thought old fashioned....even during his lifetime. And of course it must be remembered that Bach never traveled much or published a lot. Still, he wasn't "lost". Mendelssohn loved the stuff and infused his music with it which brought it much more attention than before. But even Mozart transcribed Bach and he and Beethoven [and everybody else at the time] looked to Bach for how to do a fugue. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
