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J. S. Bach in the Twenty-First Century: The Chapel Becomes a Larder
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Bach is sometimes referred to as the father of Western music, not to suggest that there was nothing of substance before him (he didn't spring full grown from the head of Zeus) but that the music after him has been profoundly influenced and shaped by his models. And surely the influences have been radical and vast, whether on the finale of Mozart's "Jupiter" symphony or the Grosse Fuge of Beethoven or the organ music of Mendelssohn or the Bachianas Brasileiras of Villa Lobos or (to acknowledge...
