It depends which part of Bach you compare them to. Bach wrote more music than anybody, at least 1000 pieces and probably a lot more that have been lost. So there are a lot of very genius pieces in Bach, but some lackluster ones too. The best of Bach, is on a level far beyond most other composers.
The rest of Bach, isn't a proper standard to judge him by but it's STILL better than other composers. BTW folks like Gould and Busoni were only expressing their own personal aesthetic views on music.
@tommyIglesias This is a stupid statement. There many great composers before Bach. Even the late G.Gould rated Orlando Gibbons above Bach. In many professional rating lists, Handel and Beethoven are rated over Bach.
@gr0mithtimon My statement is not stupid. There are several rankings of composers by critics, Music historians and performers that rate Bach as I indicated. I am a tremendous admirer of Bach and I consider him to be one of the wonders of music. But I do not agree with the statement by tommylgesias. As far as Handel and Beethoven are concerned, there are things they could do that Bach could never do and vice versa. It all boils down to personal taste.
@gr0mithtimon That is your opinion. While I do not take them as gospel, I do find them interesting because they take people out of their narrow perspective, and make them think, In all the arts there is dogmatic thinking and opinions.
It depends which part of Bach you compare them to. Bach wrote more music than anybody, at least 1000 pieces and probably a lot more that have been lost. So there are a lot of very genius pieces in Bach, but some lackluster ones too. The best of Bach, is on a level far beyond most other composers.
The rest of Bach, isn't a proper standard to judge him by but it's STILL better than other composers. BTW folks like Gould and Busoni were only expressing their own personal aesthetic views on music.
susumu07 1 year ago
I'd really like to know who's playing here, the tempo is handled very naturally with appropriate showmanship.
PraeludiumUndFuge 1 year ago
I think what tommy was trying to say was this:
Everything before Bach led TO him. Everything after Bach came FROM him.
tromba55 2 years ago 2
lol thats a pretty acurate statement
Stehnz 2 years ago
Who's the performer?
jlamour 2 years ago
@jlamour Sounds like Peter Watchorn.
hellspreetube 5 months ago
Don't forget Reinken and Buxtehude - Bach owed much of his skill on the organ to these two great masters.
It's funny though that the names of Bach's "official" teachers have not come down to us.
susumu07 2 years ago
before him nothing
after him everything
tommyIglesias 3 years ago
cmon, i am also a bach fan - but this is really stupid - bach couldn't have done this all if he wouldn't have had vivaldi, monteverdi, purcell...
Lutzenberger 2 years ago
@tommyIglesias Dufay.
BesACB 1 year ago
@tommyIglesias This is a stupid statement. There many great composers before Bach. Even the late G.Gould rated Orlando Gibbons above Bach. In many professional rating lists, Handel and Beethoven are rated over Bach.
shnimmuc 1 year ago
@shnimmuc
lol, music rating lists. Are you joking? Talking about stupid statements..
gr0mithtimon 7 months ago
@gr0mithtimon My statement is not stupid. There are several rankings of composers by critics, Music historians and performers that rate Bach as I indicated. I am a tremendous admirer of Bach and I consider him to be one of the wonders of music. But I do not agree with the statement by tommylgesias. As far as Handel and Beethoven are concerned, there are things they could do that Bach could never do and vice versa. It all boils down to personal taste.
shnimmuc 7 months ago
@shnimmuc
Of course such lists exist, but only an imbecile would take them serious.
gr0mithtimon 7 months ago 2
@gr0mithtimon That is your opinion. While I do not take them as gospel, I do find them interesting because they take people out of their narrow perspective, and make them think, In all the arts there is dogmatic thinking and opinions.
shnimmuc 7 months ago