Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . hat of Handel, though containing some of his finest thoughts, seemsmade at times with the instincts of a theater manager who seeks to appealto the public in the shortest and most direct way; that of Bach, ratherto satisfy his own love for the most perfect musical workmanship. It seems fair to say that Bach may have been the more modern com-poser of the two, in spite of his apparently greater love for forms whichwere even in his time nearly archaic, in the same sense that one may sayBrahms is more modern than Wagner, not in point of time, but in the
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . hat of Handel, though containing some of his finest thoughts, seemsmade at times with the instincts of a theater manager who seeks to appealto the public in the shortest and most direct way; that of Bach, ratherto satisfy his own love for the most perfect musical workmanship. It seems fair to say that Bach may have been the more modern com-poser of the two, in spite of his apparently greater love for forms whichwere even in his time nearly archaic, in the same sense that one may sayBrahms is more modern than Wagner, not in point of time, but in thespirit of infinite carefulness and indifference to outward effect so stronglyexpressed in the works of Bach and Brahms as compared with those ofHandel and Wagner. Handel worked in great bursts of almost volcanicenergy. The Messiah was composed in twenty-three days. He musthave been at fever-heat throughout them. Bach gives the impressionthat he hasted as little as he rested—his was a serene, strong outpouringof nearly even force and zjv~.:£e&pt£±fe$
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