![]() Young Ludwig's performance did nothing for Johann Sebastian, but a revival did get underway after Felix Mendelssohn organized and conducted a performance of Bach's St. He notes, for instance, that Bach's four musical sons kept his work in circulation, that Mozart was mightily impressed by a motet he heard at a Leipzig church, and that the 12-year-old Beethoven raised some eyebrows when he performed The Well-Tempered Clavier in Vienna. Bach saw a mere nine of his compositions published when his consummate masterwork, The Art of the Fugue, appeared the year after he died, it sold just 30 copies.Įric Siblin includes these and countless other facts in The Cello Suites, a book that will fascinate anyone who loves Bach's music. He never lived in a major city, he didn't work in the musical formoperathat in his era could propel a composer to stardom, and his style seemed antiquated to many. ![]() Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, by Eric Siblin (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009) hardcover, 318 pp. ![]()
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