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On 4/5/07, david  wrote:

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> Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> > Ken Restivo escribe:

> >> IIRC, some of Bach's music was considered too chromatic and

> >> dissonant at the time.

> >

> > I would consider amazing that you Remember Correctly what happened in

> > Bach's era. ;)

>

> There are writings from Bach's time, from other musicians and such

> anti-musicians as Critics ;-), in which people of his time expressed

> their opinions of his music. I believe that the legendary Toccata &

> Fugue in Dminor BWV 565 was considered unpleasantly daring and dramatic.

> After all, Bach was a young whippersnapper at the time.

I always understood that JS Bach was fairly well-liked.  He made a

living as a musician, unlike 99.99% of the people alive at the time.
-Chuckk
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