"Tom Sherman" <
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>> Bach was one of the most saturated with religion composers who ever
>> lived. All those cantatas are mind boggling. I defy anyone to attempt to
>> listen to them. Only the Germans appreciate this kind of music. The fact
>> is that music began with Haydn, not Bach....
>
> Note to Ed: Your beloved Beethoven referred to Handel as "the master of us
> all" after seeing the scores for some of the oratorios.
All the great composers who came after the Baroque era knew that music and
learned from it, but they did not write their music in that style, and for
good reason. No one wanted to listen to that kind of music anymore. It was
relegated to the Church and has been there ever since. The long playing
record resurrected this music to some extent.
When I was a child I knew only a few pieces of Baroque music. This was in
the period of the 78 rpm record and there was very little of it available.
The LP record changed all of that and I am familiar with the music. But I
really don't like it much. I have literally hundreds of albums of Baroque
music, but I don't listen to it anymore. It strikes me as being more muzak
than music.
I think musicians like Baroque era music, but I am not a musician. I am a
listener and probably a fairly average one. I note that concert hall
programs will normally only present Baroque music as a filler and that radio
programming also does the same thing. The main part of any program will
always be Classical or Romantic era music. It has been that way all of my
life and I do not ever expect to see it change.
The fact is that all the great music was written after the Baroque era. The
arts do go on forever, but there are golden ages in any art which are never
approached again. The Classical and Romantic eras were such a golden age. My
interest in modern music extends to Sibelius, Nielsen, Prokofiev and
Stravinsky. As you can see, not very modern.
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Regards,
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
