[org3432]

These depictions of JS Bach as a rebel and a bad boy are from people who don’t recognize or connect with the timeless underlining genuineness of Bach. His goal in every writing was to make music for the glory of God, purely. Weather you’re religious or not, clearly his music is genuine. What’s missing from this article is why did he he do the things he did, and the back stories to each one is seeped in his struggle with those who are selfish or otherwise poor minded compared to him. You can recognize bits of Tibetan saints even in this stories.

Here’s a perfect example where a head master downplays a music ciriuclum at a school, and he reacts to what is right and the speaker in this video can’t believe why he would stick up for what’s right vs his own self interest only. And then seems to imply that saints are just nice and don’t stick up for what’s right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzCfB2gpAhw&t=5m

[lispm]

> These depictions of JS Bach as a rebel

He was a full-time professional composer, performer and instrument expert working for various clients.

He was as much a 'technology expert, a family manager and a music theoretical nerd'.

https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-16961473.html

[prvc]

>the speaker in this video can’t believe why he would stick up for what’s right vs his own self interest only

Indeed, why bother to leave behind great artworks for future generations when there are such steeply diminishing returns for incremental improvements? Gardiner's recordings reflect this attitude.

[tzs]

> His goal in every writing was to make music for the glory of God, purely.

I'm having trouble seeing glorification of God in the Coffee Cantata (BWV 211).

[org3432]

No sense of humor?