“All music then was contemporary music,” he explains. “You wrote to be played tomorrow and you forgot about it the day after. It was very immediate and if there was no performance, or the opportunity suddenly collapsed, you simply stopped writing. People didn’t want to hear something that was a year old, certainly not ten years old, and never a century old. Composers were workers, employed on the same terms as the cook, or the coachman, or the gardener. limelightmagazine.au/Article/356061,deconstructing-the-genius-of-bach.aspx#sthash.dlJ6iM1w.dpuf #Bach
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