Word: bache
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming from stock, known in Thuring-Tan musical circles during 150, years before his birth, J. S. Bach was the first great evolutionary composer of the family. Serious, systematic, rigid in form, and strictly classical in his compositions, with a profound religious faith. Bach was the greatest master who ever wrote polyphonic music. Although his age was a somewhat mechanical one, we find in Bach a great master of deep expression, often touching the romantic...
Great artist, though he was Handel's music does not possess the same intensity as does Bach's; on the other hand it has more universal colorful appeal...
...Organ Compositions by Bach and Handel," to be played by Must Clair Leonard in Appleton Chapel...
...alike had unqualified approval for Conductor-Pianist Gabrilowitsch, musician & poet, for the Detroit Symphony, waxing stronger each season. The verdict for the best orchestral demonstration of the season, however, remained unchanged, stayed with Sergei Koussevitsky and his Boston Symphony players for a gorgeous performance a fortnight ago of two Bach preludes and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe...
Several selections from the "Well Tempered Clavichord", often reproduced some what clumsily on the pianoforte, will be rendered on the harpsichord, an instrument very similar to the one for which these selections were originally written. Much of Bach's music was composed for the old-fashioned harpsichord. Mr. Whiting considers the combination of flute and harpsichord as the best medium of interpreting Bach's pieces, as it makes the best reproduction of the instrument on which Bach originally wrote...