I assume it's the revival by Mendelssohn that Genie was referring to. Before that, Bach's music may have been known to professional musicians but he wasn't thought of as a major composer by the average music-lover.
Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/04/2006 16:07 >>> 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
