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Re: Bach and Attentive Listening
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:03:42 -0700
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Bob Draper ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Isn't there a story that Mozart was in a church and heard something by Bach
>being played.  He supposedly said "this is good, very good".  I always
>understood that what he liked about it was the multilined counterpoint.

Mozart, as we probably all know, reorchestrated Messiah.  He also arranged
several of Bach's preludes and fugues, from the 48, for string trio.

Deryk Barker
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