Re: [LAU] Re: Re: Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- musicisjustone path

From: Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 04:22:06 EEST

On 4/5/07, david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> > 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.

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.

-Chuckk

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