Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BACH DIED two hundred and nineteen years ago yesterday. During the past sixty years, it has seemed as if his death has been mourned anew-if not consciously, at least through the aweful, though belated, recognition of the importance of his work. Only a few years before the turn of the century, however, Bach ad not stood in such repute. To the romantic of the 19th century, he represented formalism and meshed wit last glimmers of the Baroque-were no longer in style. Composers were writing symphonies instead of cantatas. Bach's Polyphony was dead...
Even during his own lifetime, Bach long stood low on the list of important composers. His contemporaries placed both Telemann and Handle above him. They considered him primarily the virtuoso organist. The last days of church concert music left Bach with an often insurmoutable penury of players and singers. He must often have felt the decline of contemporary musicianship as he played the organ, directed the choir, and conducted the orchestra at the same time. To the end, he affirmed his dedication to the sacred music whose reign was then work on a secular fugue to write extremely religious chorale...
...nineteenth century found Bach's music difficult to perform in the Romantic style-their alternating piano-forte, their rubato, their sharp dynamic contrasts. If Bach's was difficult to adapt to their style, the nineteenth century decided, it was Bach's fault...
...works by composers ranging from Mozart, Verdi and Wagner to Native Son Richard Strauss and a première by Czechoslovakia's Ján Cikker. For chamber music buffs there will be Liederabende by Baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey. Another series of chamber music by Bach, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and Scarlatti will be presented by small instrumental and vocal ensembles in the elegant 18th century Nymphenburg Palace (through July...
MONTREUX-VEVEY FESTIVAL (Aug. 29-Oct. 5) offers a varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...