Bach´s Partitas

[la_leggierezza]

Bach composed 6 Partitas. What´s your favourite? 

[bernhard]

no. 1.

[la_leggierezza]

yep  no 1 is amazing. no 2 is wonderfull too and... i love no 6 as well... so it´s a dillema...

[la_leggierezza]

VOTE!!! 

i begin to believe that only a few ppl in this forum know bach partitas...  its seems that everybody knows only chopin,l iszt and beethoven...  they are the most discussed composers in this forum...

[mrchops10]

I know the Bach Partitas! But I don't know which is my favorite...Bach's music is so damn consistent, each is a pretty perfect expression of its own idea--1 is genial, 2 is dramatic, 6 is spiritual, etc. I do know my least favorite, no. 3. It's a good piece, but does anyone else this is musically far inferior to the others?(I hope nobody voted for this, please don't shoot me )

[pseudopianist]

2!!

[da jake]

6 is magnificent, very strange, wonderful - it's my favorite.

Followed by 1,4,2.



#3 Isn't great. #5 is lousy.

[quantum]

So hard to choose, each one has their own character.  I picked No. 2

My next favourite would be No. 6, on first hearing I though the Gigue was so wierd. 

[ralessi]

they all sound the same...... holy $h!t did i just say that?!?!!?? probly going to catch hell for that one but im not a huge bach fan....althoug i am working on the second partita right now for my professor. 

Cheers!
Ricky

[dominik]

VOTE!!! 

i begin to believe that only a few ppl in this forum know bach partitas...  its seems that everybody knows only chopin,l iszt and beethoven...  they are the most discussed composers in this forum...

Okay if I have to vote (we have to vote a little often in our country, doesn't always make things better : No. 6: For the final transition from the fugato to the toccata theme, for the beatuty of the allemanda, for the rhythm of the corrente, for the never heard embellishments of the sarabande for .... for the weird contrapunctual mathematics of the giga etc.

[la_leggierezza]

they all sound the same...... holy $h!t did i just say that?!?!!?? probly going to catch hell for that one but im not a huge bach fan....althoug i am working on the second partita right now for my professor.

Cheers!
Ricky

how can u say that bach´s music sound´s the same?!?!? and how can u play piano and dont like bach?!?!? bach is a god!!!    i cannot understand u!!!

[pseudopianist]

how can u say that bach´s music sound´s the same?!?!? and how can u play piano and dont like bach?!?!? bach is a god!!!    i cannot understand u!!!

I understand him.

If I were to say I don't like Schubert, that would be okay but you may never say anything about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

Bach is perfection

[pies]

6, because it's the only one I've listened to so far. And also because I've memorized its courante and currently am working on the toccata.

[alzado]

Please watch your spelling.

Bach's parties were actually rather dull.  Forget the "wine and women" -- but perhaps some very staid and religiously oriented "song."

Bach was a very stauch Protestant and did not go with any "jiggery pokery."

Likely, any parties at the Bach home were family affairs, with games for the children.

Does anyone have any information about Bach's family life?

Regards--

[bernhard]

Please watch your spelling.

Bach's parties were actually rather dull.  Forget the "wine and women" -- but perhaps some very staid and religiously oriented "song."

Bach was a very stauch Protestant and did not go with any "jiggery pokery."

Likely, any parties at the Bach home were family affairs, with games for the children.

Does anyone have any information about Bach's family life?

Regards--

Actually, Bach may not have been the sanctimonious, religious type many people are convinced he was. We know he was into drugs  (coffee, tobacco and beer) and that he didn’t mingle with the clergy – in fact he positively disliked some of them. He might have been part of a secret society dedicated to the pursuit of scientific knowledge – something frowned upon by the religious authorities of his day, and politically risky. Yes, there is more to the old wig’s life than meets the eye. I suggest two books, the first a page turner (at least it was for me – which just shows I truly have no life ), the second more scholarly and heavy going :

Klaus Eidam – The true life of J. S. Bach - Basic Books
Christoph Wolff – J. S. Bach, The Learned Musician – Oxford University Press

 

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[mrchops10]

Actually, Bach may not have been the sanctimonious, religious type many people are convinced he was. We know he was into drugs  (coffee, tobacco and beer) and that he didn’t mingle with the clergy – in fact he positively disliked some of them. He might have been part of a secret society dedicated to the pursuit of scientific knowledge – something frowned upon by the religious authorities of his day, and politically risky. Yes, there is more to the old wig’s life than meets the eye. I suggest two books, the first a page turner (at least it was for me – which just shows I truly have no life ), the second more scholarly and heavy going :

Klaus Eidam – The true life of J. S. Bach - Basic Books
Christoph Wolff – J. S. Bach, The Learned Musician – Oxford University Press

 

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

Ooooo....coffee....that naughty, naughty man....
Seriously I've never met a German who didn't drink beer, rarely met a musician who didn't smoke, and never met an adult who didn't drink coffee. Most of these people are still boring .

Although I once read (forget where, sry) that Bach apparently was less than completely faithful to his wife/wives. And he did marry a woman 17 years younger than himself, with whom he had 13 children, bringing the total number to 20. He can't have been boring in all departments!

[da jake]

Ali G Voice: Bach liked punane.