Newly created image of Bach
Posted by: TomK on 28 February 2008
Apparently it may surprise some people.
Compare traditional with new.
Am I the only one not too surprised?
Compare traditional with new.
Am I the only one not too surprised?
One formal, and the other making no attempt at formality. But still the same lovely human face if the old painting serves to slightly underline what I suspect is the wrong view of Bach as a severe disciplinarian.
He was a gentle loving familly man who was the ultimate professional and perfectionist in his work.
If one crossed him in the line of his work, I would not be surprised to think that he might be any less terrifying than many of our leading musicians of the twentieth century, but when he died he was surrounded by familly, and they were not there for his inheritance. The greatest value from that was the set of copper plates for printing on which was engraved the Art Of Fugue. These were rather soon melted down as worth more as scrap copper than as music items of value!
I would love to have met and know this giant of a man.
He was quite happy to write out himself entire Concerti by Vivaldi, Marcello and others in full and in keyboard reductions, to learn their music and perform it himself at his Coffee House Concerts In Leipzig, alongside his own works. He knew his own worth and the worth of others. Quite a man.
George
He was a gentle loving familly man who was the ultimate professional and perfectionist in his work.
If one crossed him in the line of his work, I would not be surprised to think that he might be any less terrifying than many of our leading musicians of the twentieth century, but when he died he was surrounded by familly, and they were not there for his inheritance. The greatest value from that was the set of copper plates for printing on which was engraved the Art Of Fugue. These were rather soon melted down as worth more as scrap copper than as music items of value!
I would love to have met and know this giant of a man.
He was quite happy to write out himself entire Concerti by Vivaldi, Marcello and others in full and in keyboard reductions, to learn their music and perform it himself at his Coffee House Concerts In Leipzig, alongside his own works. He knew his own worth and the worth of others. Quite a man.
George
It hardly matters, but it helps me see the inadequate characterisation in the two famous Haussmannn formal portraits.
They show a serious, possibly rather pompous man, but I think Bach was far moe rooted than that..
I can well accept that he was a dynamic, energetic and rather physical man. In old age I suspect that the best picture of him is this:
Follow Ken's link to see the history of this picture by Gottlieb Friedrich Bach. There is a kindliness in this which possibly is not found in the formal paintings! I am sure he was joker, a party man, and possibly not that serious at all, when off the subject of music. He was certainly nigh obsessive on the subject of course, as well as a very hard worker.
George
They show a serious, possibly rather pompous man, but I think Bach was far moe rooted than that..
I can well accept that he was a dynamic, energetic and rather physical man. In old age I suspect that the best picture of him is this:
Follow Ken's link to see the history of this picture by Gottlieb Friedrich Bach. There is a kindliness in this which possibly is not found in the formal paintings! I am sure he was joker, a party man, and possibly not that serious at all, when off the subject of music. He was certainly nigh obsessive on the subject of course, as well as a very hard worker.
George