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Richard's thoughts on the aesthetic of Bach:
>I was talking to a friend about this and we agreed that in general we
>enjoy Bach much more in later life, and that when we were younger, we
>thought of most of his music as dry and academic.
I myself, at 34, have been finding renewed pleasure in CM through the
works of Handel, Bach, and Haydn; (esp. the Haydn of Bruggen). Those of
you that have been following my posts, "Looking for Love in all the Wrong
Places," know that I have shamefully descended into the late 19th Century
symphonic abyss: liking composers only for their big orchestra...and after
Gustav told me he had nothing more to say, my life has been so empty.
I can only blame this upon the childhood trauma of playing trumpet in a
band among 20 other trumpets seated in front of the bass drum and gong--oh
there was nothing like it!
Well, I have been turning myself around. What I used to find lacking in
the earlier composers was the textural and dynamic elements that of course
you could enjoy in every later composer from Glazunov to Mahler to Debussy,
etc. With someone like Bach, the power is in the polyphony and rhythm--and
I guess it has taken awhile for me to *get* the different aesthetic.
John Smyth (former Romantaholic and now a friend of "trill.")
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