Contemporary Views of Bach

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Music and Movies

 

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Harland C

 

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October 17, 2011

 

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And as he aged, his music became more abstract from the contemporary French style galant invading Leipzig. Consequently, according to Gerhard Herz in his book Essays on J.S. Bach, he never became fashionable and his musical style became isolated. Bach's contemporaries distinguished him as an "uneducated and outdated master" (Herz 10)...
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They blamed him for having "stood on the shoulder of the past generations instead of participating in building the present and future of music" (Herz 10). Max Graf, author of Composer and Critic described Bach's situation as a "lonely island on which Bach had been writing his scores was surrounded by the inexorably rising waters of new music" (Graf 75)...
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