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Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
...Beethoven 2) Tschaikovsky 3) Mozart 4) Wagner 5) Schubert 6) Bach 7) Richard Strauss 8) Gershwin 9) Johann Strauss 10) Liszt 11) Handel 12) Verdi...
...anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...composer in particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems...
...most laymen, and many a concertgoer, the name Bach refers to Johann Sebastian Bach, who left behind him a musical reputation second only to that of Ludwig van Beethoven. But Johann Sebastian was only one of many talented Bachs who furnished Germany with music for seven generations. Himself the culmination of a long line of Bachs, the great Johann Sebastian begot 20 children, three of whom became composers of world renown: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...