Re: if it's not Baroque ...

[Bradley Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

> > PS: Totally unrelated trivial topic.   Is there a name (surely a silly one)
> > for the few years after Bach's death in 1750 (the end of the Baroque era)
> > but before Mozart's birth in 1756?  If not, how about let's making one up?

Er...the established 19th century term that retrospectively describes that
period is
"Rococo."  (Sounds like someone laughing heartily, doesn't it?  Ro-co-co!  Or a
pirate.  Arrrrrr!  Avast, ye mateys!  Rococo!)

But you're not forgetting about the giants CPE Bach and Haydn, are you?  When
people from about the late 1730's on said "Bach" in casual conversation, they
meant CPE Bach.  And he was around until 1788.

Mozart sure liked his work.  He said that CPE "is the father of us all, and
we are
his children."  Haydn got a lot of inspiration from playing through CPE's
keyboard
works.

Too bad GG didn't play more than one of his sonatas.  There are many
dozens of them, and they are delightfully humorous and elegant.  Fantasias and
rondos, too.  Intense with quickly-changing emotions (which is maybe why GG
didn't get into them so much...he gravitated more toward music that didn't jump
around whimsically from moment to moment).


Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA  -- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
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from the clavier...." - Alfred Cortot