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Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video]

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Post by andrewbinstock »

siegel wrote: post #27
graycat wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who know me say I'm a super music fan. Yup. I liked it well enough to get a violin and dig in, especially to Bach. For violin I have low talent, started too late, and didn't practice enough, but, still I made it through the Preludio of the E Major Partita and the D Major center section of the Chaconne. From all the possible analyses I've seen of Bach, finally I come down on just one core point: He was one heck…

Spend any time with the St. Matthew and St. John Passions and I don't see how anyone could deny Bach's music is passionate (no pun intended...really).

Or the great Chaconne for solo violin.

Re: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video]

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Post by masterleep »

bachpug wrote: post #33

I used to play the pipe organ before becoming a software engineer. Bach's works are like living inside of a multi-threaded algorithm in real time. You can understand/appreciate a lot of them from a high level without knowing what they really are doing as implementation details. Some people even can play his pieces just with muscle-memory. But if you try to fully understand as a composer what he is doing in any piece,…

Amazing that he wasn't even considered that notable a composer until many decades after he died.

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Post by dcsommer »

xoroshiro wrote: post #30
theprop wrote: post #3

Nice. I still prefer the Partitas for solo violin...

Mmmmmm. The E major one. Gavotte en Rondeau has to be my favorite. If I could play the violin, that would be my main goal.

Gavotte en Rondeau is my favorite to play, good choice :)

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Post by agmiklas »

bachpug wrote: post #33

I used to play the pipe organ before becoming a software engineer. Bach's works are like living inside of a multi-threaded algorithm in real time. You can understand/appreciate a lot of them from a high level without knowing what they really are doing as implementation details. Some people even can play his pieces just with muscle-memory. But if you try to fully understand as a composer what he is doing in any piece,…

I've always thought musical counterpoint and multi-threaded programming have a great number of parallels. Both are fundamentally about setting up independent but interlocking things that need to work together to accomplish a goal without crashing into each other. And I think the first time you experience either done by a real master, it is mind blowing in the same sort of way.

Re: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video]

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Post by lispm »

gumby wrote: post #22
pierrec wrote: post #14

Just before seeing this on HN I was listening to Buxtehude's organ works on my way home. Buxtehude was one of the main inspirations for Bach as a composer¹, and I always find it interesting to go back and forth. But there's a reason Bach is the one that has come to be a superstar - there's the huge number of surviving works, of course, and in many ways how "the student surpassed the master", not least in contrapuncta…

I used to have a cat named Buxtehude (mainly because I like the word) and was pleased that most of my friends knew the reference. I also drove there once. Not much to see, and actually has no connection to the composer.

> has no connection to the composer.

The surrounding region of the city Buxtehude, called the 'Altes Land', has a lot of old instruments and one can hear the music of the composer Buxtehude on old organs from his time... The organ in a neighbour town, where I grew up, was completed in 1675. It has been preserved in as much original state as possible. The works of Buxtehude may sound today on that organ like 300+ years ago, when he lived...

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Post by fredley »

bachpug wrote: post #33

I used to play the pipe organ before becoming a software engineer. Bach's works are like living inside of a multi-threaded algorithm in real time. You can understand/appreciate a lot of them from a high level without knowing what they really are doing as implementation details. Some people even can play his pieces just with muscle-memory. But if you try to fully understand as a composer what he is doing in any piece,…

> Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

-- Douglas Adams

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