On 26 May 2007 at 17:19, João Miguel Pais wrote: > By the way, JS Bach's music wasn't played almost at all in his last > years, and it pratically disappeared until Mendelsson picked it up > later (Beethoven and Mozart only got to some scores late in their > lives).
This old chestnut is not really true. Bach's keyboard music, for instance, never quite disappeared. And in Leipzig, he was well-known and his music was studied and played. The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (published by Breitkopf) has mentions of Bach's music as early as the first volume, in 1798. The Traeg music catalogs of 1799 from Vienna list Bach's keyboard music, and that doesn't mean Traeg acquired Bach's music in 1799, as it was the first catalog he'd ever published (having been in business since the late 1780s). What Mendelssohn rediscovered was the vocal music, but especially the Passions. The cantatas as a body languished until the 20th century, for the most part. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
