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Updated: June 12, 2025
Similarly Bach's greatest works slumbered nearly a century until brought to light by Mendelssohn. It is significant that Wagner was as world-weary from middle-age on as was Beethoven. Like him he took refuge in creative work.
But though Bach's genius was thus supreme, it was not because he was undisturbed by the vexations of daily life.
Bach's prospects were now so much improved that he thought he might make a home for himself. He had fallen in love with a cousin, Maria Bach, and they were married October 17, 1707. The young organist only remained in Mülhausen a year, for he received a more important offer.
"I answered very drily, that to-day my fantasies had all gone a wool-gathering; and, while we are talking about it, a devil, in the shape of a dandy, with two waistcoats, had smelt out Bach's Variations, which were lying under my hat in the next room.
Johann had been doing some piano teaching when not occupied with composition. But now, on the advice of his musical friends, he decided to try his luck again as a concert pianist. He began by joining Frau Clara and Joachim in a concert at Danzig. Each played solos. Johann's were Bach's "Chromatic Fantaisie" and several manuscript pieces of his own. After this the young artist went his own way.
He could never be intimate with Tom, because Tom somehow never came out from behind his spectacles. But he had learnt much from him, and in especial a familiarity with the less difficult of Bach's preludes and fugues, which Tom loved to play. Edwin knew not even the notes of music, and he was not sure that Bach gave him pleasure. Bach affected him strangely.
Daily three times music is called forth from the cathedral organ and harp, and one may hear music of every type, from the solemn, stately harmonies of the German choral, the crashing thunders of Bach's fugues and Passion music, to the light oratorios, and duets and solos of Pergolesi.
The earlier lodgings were, perhaps, on the same site though only inside the wall; a great lord did not as a rule live in the keep, except in times of danger. The area of the enclosure is about ten acres more suited to a Roman garrison than to a lord marcher of the twelfth century. That the castle was difficult to guard is shown by the success of Ivor Bach's bold dash, c. 1153-1158.
If you tie Handel's hands by debarring him from the rendering of human emotion, and if you set Bach's free by giving him no human emotion to render if, in fact, you rob Handel of his opportunities and Bach of his difficulties the two men can fight after a fashion, but Handel will even so come off victorious. Otherwise it is absurd to let Bach compete at all.
This is about the only redeeming feature I can offer concerning Major Bach's rule over us. I think, however, that he was somewhat more closely observant than was generally supposed to be the case, because those of us who escaped the hair-cutting precaution happened to be the very prisoners who were unremitting in their efforts to preserve unassailable personal cleanliness.
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