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| Happy Birthday, Mr. Music | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 20 2006, 08:59 PM (214 Views) | |
| George K | Mar 20 2006, 08:59 PM Post #1 |
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Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday dear Sebastian Happy Birthday to You! (and thank you) Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new musical forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust and dazzling contrapuntal technique, a seemingly effortless control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. Bach's forceful suavity and vast output have earned him wide acknowledgment as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| LWpianistin | Mar 20 2006, 10:04 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Happy Birthday Bach! |
| And how are you today? | |
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| Horace | Mar 20 2006, 10:32 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Many happy returns. ![]() I like the fact that one of the towering artistic geniuses of mankind was, otherwise, an essentially normal, sane, humble guy. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| George K | Mar 21 2006, 05:06 AM Post #4 |
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He and Haydn - both with no issues. Hardworking honest and brilliant. (waiting for Apple) |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| apple | Mar 21 2006, 06:03 AM Post #5 |
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one of the angels
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to my lover, hero and idol - Bach.. i love you on your birthday and every day I know what it's like to be powerless a slave to an instrument of pleasure bonded by love with servitude practiced slowly measure by measure the strictest of rigid parameters defining my moments of leisure in a delightfully alluring and difficult rousing relationship ever to treasure. |
| it behooves me to behold | |
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| George K | Mar 21 2006, 10:02 AM Post #6 |
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Just got back from the piano (I'm having a Sebastian day today...) and played a bunch of P&F's from WTC. What joy! As a lark, I opened up the Prelude BWV 869 - the one in B-minor, #24 from book 1. Never even looked at it before, but I was able to
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| sue | Mar 21 2006, 12:35 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I almost missed this! Happy Birthday Mr. Bach. First day of spring, how perfect.
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