Johann Sebastian Bach

BaldJean wrote: well, I guess that proves violin player Hilary Hahn wrong, who once stated "some people say: 'I don't like Mozart' or 'I don't like Stravinski', but nobody ever says 'I don't like Bach' "

Always the contrarian, me.

Phil wrote: Of rock (prog?) music, the most famous piece that comes to mind was "Whiter Shade of Pale" though I can't recall off-hand which particualr pice of music it was based on.

I thought that was Albinoni.

Phil wrote: Of rock (prog?) music, the most famous piece that comes to mind was "Whiter Shade of Pale" though I can't recall off-hand which particualr pice of music it was based on.

I thought that was Albinoni.
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Nope, definitely Bach's Air on a G string.

I've given reading most of the follow up messages on this thread, they head off in direction not asked originally. So apologies if the following have been mentioned already, lost in a whelter of irrelevancy.

Check out the first Egg album

On the Farewell Concert DVD bye Cream Jack Bruce says that JS Bach influenced him a lot. :P

Dick Heath wrote: Check out the first Egg album

Manni wrote: On the Farewell Concert DVD bye Cream Jack Bruce says that JS Bach influenced him a lot. :P still Cream do not really sound like Bach.

Phil wrote: cuncuna wrote: Bach's music is to be read within a context that is lost now. Some of his works are quite beautifull actually, some of them are just mass production. But he certainly was some kind of a genius, with large amount of Iq and that sorts of things. Like manmy other musicians from the early days of music, the code to undertsand Bach's music is gone with the time, and now, what we have left is some certain sense of "wow, what a job", but the full meaning won't get to us, since culture has advanced and the same way to look at things doesn't apply anymore. Interesting view - forgive me if I'm off on a tangent but Bach composed much of his music on commission, rather than specifically out of any "inspiration" - including the wonderful Brandenburg Concertos.

How did most of the great classical composers surivive unless they were either under the patronage or choir masters of great (and rich) cathedrals. Hasn't much changed today, composers, (whether serious classical or rock) survive by being commissioned  (e.g. Gary Husband's marvellous Force Majeure project was commissioned by BBC Radio 3), or having a recording contract - several rock musicians talked about contractual obligation recordings (a lot of Pink Floyd post DSOTM, sound that to me) - Monty Python even called one of their albums that.

Bach btw was notorious (like many other 17th and 18th century composers), for recycling his compositions: what might have been originally been part of a choral work ended up as an organ  piece or a concerto or both. However, remember very few people would have the privlege to hear Bach or his works when he alive - the commissioned material would have been restricted to his patron (hence with changes of patron, the chance  "to play that song again in a new setting") or the congregation of a cathedral or church.

Tuzvihar wrote: Do you know any prog inspired by J. S. Bach's music?

Edited by Fassbinder - July 12 2006 at 21:32

Fassbinder wrote: Tuzvihar wrote: Do you know any prog inspired by J. S. Bach's music?   Hugh Banton (VdGG) released "The Goldberg Variations". He played organ built by himself. Not Prog.   In Prog:   An obvious Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson "Bouree"   Colosseum in Morituri Te Salutant "Beware the Ides of March" -- the same theme as in Procol Harum "Whiter Shade of Pale"

a couple  more.. one that unless I missed it (surprised if not mentioned) RDM - Contaminazione (Bach's Well Tempered Clavier)

Styx - Little Fugue in "G"