Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions...
...thinks of himself as having "much more to do with the 18th or 17th Century than the present one. The workmanship was much better in Bach's time than it is now. One had first to be a craftsman. Now we have only talent. We do not have the absorption in detail, the burying of oneself to be resurrected a great musician...
Dupré spun and thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...
Marcel Dupré, 62, is one of the few men who has ever claimed to know all of the fat and formidable organ literature of Bach by heart. As a performer of Bach and other early masters, he has his rivals: in famed Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer and Princeton's Carl Weinrich. But Dupré is also a master of the moderns...
Unlike most of his fellow Bach organists, who are scandalized at the thought of an organ bigger than the one Bach wrote for, Dupré likes an organ with all the "French horns and fluttery tone qualities" that the romantic composers wanted, and enough extra stops for the modern improvisations which are his specialty...