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They say Mozart has almost completed his Great Mass in C, and a mate said he'd heard Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and he said they were bangin' Well, it's the close season.
Great effort from the boy Wolfgang, considering he was born in 1756!
I'm with you, no more interested in music because its new (as opposed to something I haven't heard before) than I am in reading new books, eating new food or using new words.
Great effort from the boy Wolfgang, considering he was born in 1756!
I'm with you, no more interested in music because its new (as opposed to something I haven't heard before) than I am in reading new books, eating new food or using new words.
'E was a precocious young lad alright…I should have chosen Handel !
Was about to say the same that Bach was dead before Mozart was born.
He was a difficult character old Johnny Bach. My favourite story about him was when he was working with an orchestra of students in Arnstadt, he was quite rude about their musical abilities. He apparently said of one of his students that when he played the bassoon it sounded like a nanny goat.
One night Bach was walking across the town square when this student accosted him saying "Anyone who insults my bassoon is insulting me" and started having a go at Bach with a wooden stick.
Now Bach was quite used to things getting a bit lairy with his students and had started carrying a knife in his sock. Bach and the student had quite a set-to in this town square but thankfully JSB didn't get the chance to use the knife otherwise he would have almost certainly been jailed, had no musical career and we would have been deprived of the 1000+ compositions he wrote!
Here's a joke for all you fans of music from the 1700s.....
Why couldn't Beethoven find his music teacher?
Because he was Haydn
I once won a pub quiz with a nearest the pin tiebreaker on the number of Haydn symphonies - 106! He must have been like a lobster with one giant writing arm and a little twig on the other side.
Indeed Bach inspired The Beatles, particularly when both Lennon and McCartney felt he wasn't being recognised for his influence on modern musicians, hence the song 'Get Bach To Where You Once Belonged'.
Indeed Bach inspired The Beatles, particularly when both Lennon and McCartney felt he wasn't being recognised for his influence on modern musicians, hence the song 'Get Bach To Where You Once Belonged'.
... I'm here all week.
Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum was probably the first pop song to allude to Bach with its descending chord sequence.
I once won a pub quiz with a nearest the pin tiebreaker on the number of Haydn symphonies - 106! He must have been like a lobster with one giant writing arm and a little twig on the other side.
Haydn's numbers pale in comparison to Vivaldi, who wrote around 500 - don't think he'd do too badly up front next season!
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