"His paintings used to be of an encyclopedic nature, drawing jointly and surmounting the concepts, the kinds, and the final achievements of his personal and past generations and resulting in a brand new perspective." — Grove's Dictionary of track and Musicians.
This knowledgeable evaluation of the genius of Bach's works may be utilized with maximum accuracy to The Well-Tempered Clavier. This hugely influential paintings is enormous within the background of Western track. It represents not just the fruits of Bach's personal maturation strategy, but in addition the galvanization of the rising sort and constitution of contemporary keyboard music.
The grace and fecundity of The Well-Tempered Clavier have extremely joyful audiences, musicians, and composers for hundreds of years. Mozart, whilst speedily advancing to the peak of his mastery, had yet to learn a manuscript replica of The Well-Tempered Clavier and his sort constructed a brand new polyphonic richness and intensity of concord. Beethoven studied the entire obtainable works of Bach profoundly (including The Well-Tempered Clavier) and regularly quoted them in his sketchbooks, frequently with direct referring to his personal works. Chopin is nowhere extra attribute than whilst he exhibits his love of The Well-Tempered Clavier in his Etudes and Preludes. It used to be Schumann who, in a chain of maxims for younger musicians, stated "Make The Well-Tempered Clavier your day-by-day bread."
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