Well, to be honest, you are the first person i have ever met in my life to have this opinion on Bach, but since you dont like it there is nothing wrong with that, we cant like everything. Actually Bach was not considered as a great composer when i was alive, he was not even considered good, but old fashioned, his sons were more popular than him. It was only in the modern ages that he was recognized as the greatest composer of humanity. My mom always played Chopin for me on the piano when I was a child, i have a warm feeling for that and love to play Chopin myself (really hard to play his compositions) but for a mysterious reason Bach had a special place in my heart since I was a kid an i didnt need my teachers to understand that, i just felt it inside. I really cant hear any Bach in Britney's music, if she played his cello suites or fugues in minor Id probably have her posters hanging on my wallsPandemonium wrote:Oooh, you really got me right in the gut with Bach Mr. Dubmasta.... in a bad bad way...
For me, Bach is very very low on the list of classical important composers
Classical musicians tend to say, "Bach is our mom, and he is our dad" meaning that Bach is everything about classical music, Im not a pro but i happened to study classical piano for 6 years in my childhood, I regret not going further with this but i guess it played its role. Listening to Bach and playing Bach on an instrument are two totally different things and experiences, sometimes you can feel that your soul is pumping out of your body while playing and playing Bach can easily make you cry, it has happened to me quite sometimes actually. His compositions vary from simple ones to extremely complicated fugues, people who listen to his music or studied it know that its pure and very complicated mathematics literally speaking, and polyphony of course, meaning that even if there are only 2 hands playing, there are actually many voices in there, 5 or 6 and even more, and this magic is very difficult to play. A few years ago there was some turmoil going on in my life, i stopped listening to electronica and other music completely, I only listened to baroque and especially Bach for a year if not more and had the chance to go through all his work from Lute and cello suites to well tempered clavier, french and english suites, sonatas and fugues. Cant say i like everything, not really fond of his arias really, but I love the majority of his work, especially works in minor.
Everybody has their own interpretation of music, for me personally it starts and ends with Bach and has a direct impact on my other musical preferences whether its Hendrix Im listening to, jazz, Budd, Tool or FSOL. Something I could reveal is, for some reason after the FSOL live in Athens, when it finished while i was walking away his BWV 813 Sarabande from the french suites was constantly playing in my head and i understood a lot from this, cant even describe what i felt at that moment. . .
