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If you could see Bach singing with one voice and playing his own parts, but watching over everything and bringing back to the rhythm and the beat, out of 30 or even 40 musicians, the one with a nod, another by tapping with his foot, the third with a warning finger, giving the right note to one from the top of his voice, to another from the bottom, and to a third from the middle of it…
— Jun 22, 2026 09:59PM
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Jeremy
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Res severa est verum gaudium
True pleasure is a serious matter.
This motto is on the wall of the Gewandhaus Concert Hall, opened in 1781 and still there.
Noted! :)
— Jun 22, 2026 10:27PM
True pleasure is a serious matter.
This motto is on the wall of the Gewandhaus Concert Hall, opened in 1781 and still there.
Noted! :)
Jeremy
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Family members and students often helped copy out box parts for rehearsals and performances that were often imminent. And his choirs weren’t always amazing and yet Bach wrote on master of this craft.
— Jun 22, 2026 10:22PM
Jeremy
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I think I need a hard copy of this book and read it again flipping to the notes at the end of each chapter. Packed full they are and hard to do on a kindle.
— Jun 22, 2026 10:21PM
Jeremy
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Check out the Musical Offering Bach wrote. 10 canons among the most complicated he ever wrote.
— Jun 22, 2026 10:19PM
Jeremy
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His constant practice in the working out of polyphonic pieces had given his eye such facility that even in the larger scores he could take in all the simultaneously sounding parts at a glance. His hearing was so fine that he was able to detect the slightest error, even in the largest ensembles.
— Jun 22, 2026 10:02PM
Jeremy
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….. although he is executing the most difficult parts himself, noticing at once whenever a mistake occurs, holding everyone together, and repairing any unsteadiness, full of rhythm in every part of his body – this one man taking in all these harmonies with his keen ear and emitting with his voice alone, the tone of all the voices
— Jun 22, 2026 10:01PM
Jeremy
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Copyists writing out parts sometimes same day as the rehearsals. Oh what a time.
— Jun 22, 2026 09:56PM
Jeremy
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This author has obviously lots of experience and musical knowledge but sometimes a little too much guesswork.
— Jun 22, 2026 09:55AM
Jeremy
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Life in Leipzig to start was not exactly lovely. Unruly students, his teaching obligations to them and much more still he threw all his energies into three cantata cycles and two Passions.
— May 12, 2026 01:26AM
Jeremy
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With four young children to raise, Bach, lost no time in finding a new wife. Anna Magdalena Wilcke was a professional singer and came from musical stock. Their wedding was in December 1721.
— May 12, 2026 01:09AM
