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Johann Sebastian Bach (view source)
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, 14:32, November 22, 2020Added trivia about Beethoven calling Bach Meer
*Beethoven's teacher as a boy, Christian-Gottlob Neefe (who came from Leipzig), made sure that Beethoven played Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; the young genius had memorized all 48 by the age of 12!
*Beethoven's teacher as a boy, Christian-Gottlob Neefe (who came from Leipzig), made sure that Beethoven played Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; the young genius had memorized all 48 by the age of 12!
*Mozart learned of Bach's music relatively late in life, in the 1780s, from Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an ambassador and connoisseur who brought Bach's music with him to Vienna (after he also had learned of it in Berlin). Swieten would hold all-night music sessions where only Bach and Handel was played; a few decades later, Beethoven would also be invited to Swieten's palace.
*Mozart learned of Bach's music relatively late in life, in the 1780s, from Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an ambassador and connoisseur who brought Bach's music with him to Vienna (after he also had learned of it in Berlin). Swieten would hold all-night music sessions where only Bach and Handel was played; a few decades later, Beethoven would also be invited to Swieten's palace.
*“Bach” is the German word for “brook” or “stream.”<ref>https://www.dict.cc/?s=Bach</ref> Beethoven, by way of praising Bach, once wrote that Bach should not be called Bach, but Meer; that is, not a stream, but the sea.<ref>https://www.dict.cc/?s=Meer</ref> “Nicht Bach, Meer sollte er heissen”<ref>https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/talking-bach-with-pianist-ramin-bahrami-10361/</ref> – “Not Bach, the Sea he should rather be called.” It’s a nice double pun because in German “Meer” also sounds like “mehr,” which means “more.”<ref>https://www.dict.cc/?s=mehr</ref>
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