Bach to the Future: Why Johann Sebastian appeals to moderns

Weekly Standard ^ | 02/26/2007 | George B. Stauffer

[SunTzuWu]

Thanks for the ping sitetest. I don't always post a reply but I read every article. Thanks again.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750".

So yes, you were right about Bach's music being in the general category of classical music; it's just not of the classical era (1730 - 1820).

[dfwgator]

Well if it ain't Baroque, then don't fix it.



(I can hear the groans all the way over here.)

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yup, composers like Bach are fugue and far between.

[sitetest]

You're welcome!

[Borges]

Debussy said that Bach was the only Great Composer who didn't write period music.

[SoCalPol]

Thanks for the ping.
Was privileged to see the historical places of
Bach when I was in East Germany in 1983.

Bach was the greatest of the greats.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated.

[sitetest]

I agree.

[newguy357]

Bach was a performer, a jazz improv master, not a writer. Somebody else with a good ear wrote down the compositions.

Evidence?

[Lutheran Loft II]

Bach was also a great Lutheran, thank you very much!

[SoCalPol]

*Bach was also a great Lutheran, thank you very much!* Yes, the majority of his writing for the church and very very little for the court. I saw Bach's birth house in Eisenach, just a short distance from the Cotta House where Luther lived for a short while Also was in St. Thomas Church

[freepertoo]

I love Bach, but Mozart...my, my, my.

[windcliff]

ping

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don't share his theology, but he's my favorite composer!

[gcruse]

Bach? Bah. Give me Mozart or Wagner any day of the week.

[Popocatapetl]

For those of you who want to see real evolution in music, after listening to ordered JS Bach, listen to the works of one of his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The jump is amazing, the son having almost a "jazzy" style compared to the father.

[Lexinom]

Debussy bump

[Borges]

J.S. Bach was considered old fashioned in his day. And Glenn Gould once said, when asked his opinion of Jazz, that no one swung better then Bach.

[Kimmers]

What do you recommend?