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Johann Sebastian Bach: Musicians
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During his lifetime, people thought of Bach as just an ordinary working musician. No one really knew much about his music until 100 years after his death, when another composer, Felix Mendelssohn, conducted a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
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As one scholar put it, Bach the musician was indeed "a Christian who lived with the Bible." Besides being the baroque era's greatest organist and composer, and one of the most productive geniuses in the history of Western music, Bach was ... a theologian who just happened to work with a keyboard.
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The Latin root of "concerto" encapsulates the dual aspect of this musical genre, which had been pioneered before Bach by Italian composers such as Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi. It means a diverse body of musicians playing together "in concert," but it ... suggests a kind of contest in which solo players (alone or in small groups) are pitted against a larger group.
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