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@@fjorddenierbear4832 Yeah you are right. And Bach studied him deeply. He took long walks to see him play. Then I heard that he went home to transcribe his works
Bach for me has been the most talented musician of all times: the complexity of the counterpoint, the art of the variation, the huge and diverse music pieces, the variety of the resources used... He is the reference of the baroque period and the "caviare" and "exclusive-distinguished" art for the pianists. If Chopin/Beethoven concerts are for big-mass stadiums, Bach concerts should be played in top-high exclusive clubs. I´m still amazed how he gave us a message as a present: one single silence for his "sigh after the pain suffered" is enough to understand his unique talent (compass no 28 in BWV 847) .
The Partita for Violin No. 3 at 5:23 being played is the transcription done by Rachmaninov in 1933 and not the original written by Bach. This version by Rachmaninov varies considerably since he added a jazz-style to it, and it's worth listening to both the original (usually performed on violin) and this version to see how they differ.
The same is true of 4:05 In dir ist Freude, BWV 615. This is Bach chorale that was arranged for piano by Busoni. Also, some of these works were originally incorrectly attributed to Bach (BWV 945 for example).
@Diego Alberto Cobos Zavala Diego are you disputing that major liberties were taken with some of these transcriptions? They're not all bad, they're just not all Bach!
Fugues are the most complex pieces of music. The fact that he could write one at 10 years old and later in his live IMPROVISE them just proves that Bach is a genius
Fugues are not the most complex music whatsoever, quite the opposite. Because of how mathematically they are written it’s one of the first things you would learn if you do composition in a conservatory. However that is only compared to different types of composition such as ballads and rhapsodies, and Bach is a genius so his works are obviously an exception to the “easy”.
@@sati6298 Oh and maybe I described it wrong. With pieces I mean like a sonata, a piano concerto, a ballade, a toccata, etc. From the actual aspect of pieces being written then ofcourse, there's much more complex stuff out there.
@@letsbrawl945 I agree. however, the fact that there are so many rules leads to an "easier" writing experience. I didn't mean easy, it's simply more straighforward than other genres. Again this would be undersandable as composition grew in difficulty thanks to the legacy of later composers such as Bach. This doesn't take out the difficulty and genius that Bach represets.
@@sati6298 "however, the fact that there are so many rules leads to an "easier" writing experience" By this logic bebop is easier than other forms of jazz because of the very fast changes that somewhat dictates what you can do with the melody. You're talking about composition while completely ignoring the fact that Bach was able to improvise 3 voiced fugues. Please show me someone who can do that. Many people can't even write fugues. Btw, to quote Pat Metheny - "Compared to Bach we all suck."
@RandomAverageCat that's exactly what I was thinking about the second movement of the concerto for 3 harpsichords in Dm. th-cam.com/video/Poyb8XcYbXE/w-d-xo.html
@@wolfilius2514 yes I understand, I think it is impossible for a 10 year old to compose a fuge of this level. However can you tell me who composed or why they thought a 10 year old Bach did?
Tracing the evolution of Bach's music from his youth to his mature years is truly enlightening. It's fascinating to witness the growth, depth, and refinement in his compositions over time. This video offers a rare glimpse into the genius of one of the greatest composers in history. Highly recommended for any music enthusiast!
The Toccata in G Major, BMW 916 (1714) is a thing of beauty. I personally felt in that moment, after listening up to that point, that that's when his composition probably started to mature.... Of course I may be wrong as he wrote thousands of works, and I am not aware of all of them... maybe he wrote something more beautiful when he was younger... But this piece felt like a turning point to me..... What a great teacher and musician... Bach was the best there's ever been.
But marthesstudio, these pieces are played by a "mathematics engine", a sequencer with only few if any human adjustments, so it is "mathematically perfectly rendered notes" we are hearing here. However, it is still a bit interesting, especially because the editor here has chosen to show so many differents sides of JSB - and on a "modern piano-sound", - so remember this is "virtual instruments and virtual performers" or just digital music.
That's because baroque music utilizes chords...which Bach simply mirrored in retrograde...he could only compose within the constraints of the keyboard layout. It will always sound like "math" but he wasn't doing math.
i think you'll find that his development as a man correlates with the enhanced use of dissonance, chromaticism, modulation and emotional depth. his early recordings sound much like what imitation bach sounds like, kind of complex but happy and with broadly common sounding melodic lines, everything after age 19 of his starts to sound like bach as we know him so well. one striking thing that occurs is that as he becomes a much older man contrapuntal method becomes extremely powerful and almost God like in it's ability, it is just this unreal multi voice force of nature that no child could write, only after years of toil. I'm currently learning BWV 645 (sleepers awake). it is an absolute piece of genius and you see that it's simplicity is deceptive, the swing and sway that Bach achieves between the two voices is insane and if you don't have your rhythm and tempo to the T then you're done for and you might as well go back to school lol. This is a fantastic recording/demonstrating what I mean about this piece. also the horn soloing it is just beautiful: th-cam.com/video/KyWOIKCtjiw/w-d-xo.html
Bach: handful of paintings showing a man of infinite talent. Me: infinite selfies and barely a handful of talent! Also, I was bummed not to see his Brandenburg Concertos here, they were amongst my favorites to play (violin & viola).
Nah man please don't compare yourself to bach He was a man of his kind and given his talent and intellect from god، completely different time and conditions His entire family were strictly musicians, music was flowing in his blood and he had dedicated his whole life composing
People nowadays will never understand the genius, talent, and musical awareness that this man has. He is one of if not the best and most talented Musicians and Composers of all time
No, nobody. Ever. Never ever. Not a single person. Nope. Not one. Just about every generation for hundreds of years have understood the genius, talent, and musical awareness that this man has. But sadly, it will now come to an end. What a shame.
@@Kolfonik right?! I mean, thats why the Ninja Turtles are named after these amazing chefs! 😆 But seriously... Thinking that all the sudden people will just forget these songs or composers is bizarre. Even middle school bands play versions of these. It's not like Juliard is going anywhere... Absolutely ridiculous to think they'll just be forgotten.
When they were deciding what recordings to put on the gold discs attached to the Voyager spacecraft, the scientist Carl Sagan said "We could put the complete works of Bach on them... but that would just be showing off!"
This is something. Shows Bach getting better and better, and that is something. Being hearing impaired, I appreciate the visual of the lines moving down. That allows me to see the structure of the music, and this keeps me from losing attention to what I'm hearing. Its easy to be hypnotized by the music and just fall into a trance.
This evolution is an extraordinary way to present a composer's art. Please do more...Handel, Scarlatti, born the same year as Bach would be especially interesting. I see Beethoven on my play list...
Beethoven development from his twenties to thirties was unbelievable dude had reached his peak at 30 year old and and in my opinion he became the greatest musician of all time probably. (I'd put him of the same scale with bach and mozart, I equally love them)
I think the videos actually wrong here, I believe it's speculated that Bach was 19 when he wrote that, but there's loads of mystery surrounding that piece and no one actually knows. There's actually people out there who believe Bach didn't even write it lol
That's because he basically wrote the same style of music throughout his life, he just got more proficient in that style. Compare with Beethoven - there's no way you could mistake something he wrote at 20 with something he wrote nearer the end of his life.
He didn't. BWV 945 is a "spurious work", which means that there isn't sufficient evidence to prove that it was actually written by him. Scholars estimate that it dates around 1695-1700, which is a very large margin of error. It could have been written when he was 15 or later, or earlier. We just don't know.
Bach was a master of counterpoint technique. He was also a genius attuned to his time, adopting the temperate scale based on the mathematical advances of the time represented by the logarithmic scale.
I mean, for Bach, I generally hear very strict, metronomic interpretations without much in the way of dynamics anyway, person or MIDI, with the exception of toccatas. But suites, chorales, fugues especially, very metronomic. Same with Beethoven as far as tempo steadiness goes, I typically hear a very steady tempo in Beethoven. Maybe just a tad more rubato than Bach, but almost imperceptible. And nothing like what I hear in Chopin.
I am not specialist but I cannot understand why this is evolution. For me the works of the 10-years-old Bach are so genial as the ones from the later times. It seems to be a genius just from the beginning till the end of his life.
Il n'y a pas forcément d'évolution en effet.. Il a juste composé à tout âge....les toccatas 910-916 (À écouter par Glenn Gould), oeuvres de toute beauté et écriture, Il les a composé vraiment jeune , là on nomme une (bwv 916) à 28 ans, mais moi j'avais entendu à 18 ans aussi.
@@Bwv1046 i.e. you give an AI model the following inputs: an existing painting (like the very famous one of Bach holding a score) and a prompt like "make a painting of this man 10 years later in the same style as this painting" and then the AI will generate a new image of the person aged by 10 years as per the prompt. Therefore, if you have a couple of existing paintings of a person at different ages you can use them to generate a lot more in the same style at different ages.
Yes, ive heard he was very catholic so maybe he expressed his proximity to God and the divine in his music when he got older and closer to death, thus closer to God?😅
@@terminatos Probably, but he was early a self-learning student, sitting by candle light and copied the old music to learn from it. The story about his childhood in his brother`s house (Bach`s parents died early) is well known.
the music is sublime and particularly his latest works where he explores the edges of tonality, but two pieces had particular spot for me when i first heard Bach, the Capriccio in B Flat major and the Goldberg Variations
God damn! That's better than Mozart's efforts at 10! Mathematically precise, with great counterpoint. And this without a helicopter father pushing him like a beast of burden (as far as I can tell), trotting him around the major courts of Europe like a trained circus animal. How is Bach not included in the "little boy genius" pantheon of Western culture???
Probably because Mozart got all the "child wonder" publicity in such high places. Basically, Mozart was SEEN doing this as a child. Bach wasn't. Not to the same degree, at least.
I think it's very hard to know. Because Bach reworked a lot of his compositions and included them in various pieces of music. Then near the end of his life he apparently destroyed a lot of stuff he wasn't satisfied with. Add that in with the fact that a whole lot is missing even among that which was originally preserved and it's a difficult question when everything was composed. Also, there is the question of when it was originally composed and when and how extensively it was originally reworked.
When you put all Bach's works together, it is stupendous. Most people would be hard put just to copy all of it in their lifetime. I am convinced he had a system. So that given a tune, he could basically flesh it out into a piece without really thinking about it. What is amazing to me is that if you write his music out as a series of chords, it still sounds amazing. That is, if you scrunch up all the notes together in the bass, so it sounds as an accompaniment, not as several melodies (as he wrote). Yet he wrote before modern chord theory emerged. I'm not explaining this well, but the thing is, he didnt just write counterpoint as FUX taught - adding accompanying melodies to each other in a way that the notes didnt clash - but the piece have the chordal drive that pieces conceived harmonically have. Further, his chromaticism was extraordinary. At times he modulated so quickly he's just transitioning through keys from one to another, almost so much that its no longer really tonal music, but it still sounds tonal. All this gives a huge richness to his sound that later, classical composers just dont have. Neither do his contemporaries, like Handel. But how was this done? As I say, he wrote at such a rate that he cant have worked on pieces like you or I, but more like simple calculation. A bag of tricks that generate rich music. Learning to compose myself (poorly) shows me how easy it is to make music that isnt unpleasing, just following very simple rules. But there is a huge leap from that to writing something that comments on the meaning of existence - like the 13:08 Matthew Passion above. Some of these tricks are visible - note the opening pedal point - the repeated bass note - which adds ominousness.
Mais dans d' innombrables oeuvres de Bach il y a une grande beauté mélodique. Et ça même en suivant les règles , tu ne peux pas le produire . Tu peux juste produire quelque chose d' assez froid.
G'day, Mariovereher! I'm really enjoying this video of the progression of Bach's music over the course of 55 years. I have one question, though, about the famous Hausmann portrait shown at the 50 years old mark. Wasn't that painted when Bach was in his 60's?
Yep. Plenty of other things happened around the world when Bach was alive. Peter the Great assumed the throne of Russia and modernized the place. The Kangxi Emperor in China finally quelled the Ming rebellion that killed at least 10 million Chinese. Aurangzeb, the last renowned Mughal emperor, died and India fell into civil war. Gold was discovered in Brazil, Beijing became the largest city in the world, and Hawaii and Tahiti were discovered by British explorers.
Scriabin may have suffered from mental illness at the end of his life, and he may have had other (physical/mental) health issues. But there wasn't the type of connection between his musical output and his mental health as is being suggested. He had an unusual philosophy, and his music got more harmonically complex over time, but this wasn't a symptom of a "decline in sanity". His later pieces aren't the works of a crazy person. :-) Unlike Schumann who had serious mental issues at the end of his life and who's musical output was impacted by this. And unlike the connection between Beethoven's deafness and his musical output.
@@emilgilelsYou make a strong point, but I have to disagree on the claim that his decline in mental health had little to no effect on his compositions. For the last ten years of his life, Scriabin worked on a piece called Mysterium. Its premiere was said to have been a week long event that would bring the end to the world. Sadly this was never finished. If Scriabin was sane, I don't think he would attempt to create something as crazy as that. Not to mention his fear of his sixth piano sonata. Someone who thinks they are God is clearly not mentally sane, and that definitely reflected in his compositions.
@@Arobamod I'm familiar with this composition, and with his 'philosophy'. The sketches were completed and there's a recording of them with Ashkenazy conducting (it's on TH-cam!). He certainly had a peculiar philosophical world view. He may have had "narcissistic personality disorder". Maybe we'd call him a megalomaniac. But when we listen to his completed compositions we aren't listening to a musical depiction of "craziness". ;-) By the way I love all his music - early, middle, and late period. And if you haven't read it there is a good biography of him (the author is Faubion Bowers) that is not too hard to find on the internet if you try to look for it. ;-)
@@charlesthomas5956 I quit because it would be useless for me to keep making midi videos when there are countless other channels doing the exact thing but better, like this one.
Kidding aside, I believe the portrait shown here at age 50-51 is the only accurate portrait we have of Bach. It's too bad there are no other portraits in existence.
Most of the "portraits" are not of Bach at any age. And I might add, the whole video I don't condemn but . . . it is not conceived or executed on an informed enough basis. But, it's not badly done and at least it IS done and is something.
At 5:20 we hear a keyboard arrangement of the prelude from BWV 1006 (or 1006a or 1006.1), which may have been a violin piece or lute piece, who knows. Bach also arranged this for orchestra in Cantata 29. Rachmaninoff's arrangement for piano sounds similar to the arrangement on this video.
Your 30's is basically when most musicians reach some kind of expert level playing and/or theory. It's either that or you burn out before getting to that point. I know all the scales, chords, a lots of complicated ideas and have applied it all to my practice so that I am able to play whatever I want, whenever I want and basicaly always sound good. I can't just magically play everything instantly, but I'm highly Ear trained and able to always figure out how to play a tune just by hearing it and nothing is over my head anymore. People don't like theory, because It's really not fun to study in the begining easily and is difficult to stay motivated with, that is until you actually get everything figured out. You begin to find it harder to play something that doesn't sound good and you become incredibly diverse in your ability. Being too repetitive and running out of ideas when creating becomes much less of a problem. Bach is a genius for his great work, but he did suffer from a kind of musical tunnel vision, as does basicaly everyone.
ONE HALF of Cantor Bach’s music was lost after it was confiscated by a duke. The music was stored in a barn, which later caught fire destroying all of that music.
Chronologie intéressante ! Dommage que le piano soit le seul instrument utilisé pour illustrer la musique de Bach, alors qu'il a composé aussi pour l'orgue, l'orchestre ... !
Very nice, but I can't help it with the tempo of the capriccio in bflat major (19yo). The true tempo marking is arioso-adagio😅 not presto like it was played here
It's time for Bach's evolution! What's your favorite work by him?
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Prelude in C major
Minuet in G major
Toccata and Fugue BWV 565
Prelude and fugue in c minor
His 'inventions'
Bach's writing becomes even more impressive once you realize that he couldn't study Bach's works
"Compared to Bach we all suck." --- Pat Metheny
If you weren't ignorant of Buxtehude you may think differently. He was just as good as Bach although different.
The sacreligiousnes
@@fjorddenierbear4832 Yeah you are right. And Bach studied him deeply. He took long walks to see him play. Then I heard that he went home to transcribe his works
@@fjorddenierbear4832Buxtehude was fully inserted into the music of his time. Bach, on the other hand, is timeless.
Bach for me has been the most talented musician of all times: the complexity of the counterpoint, the art of the variation, the huge and diverse music pieces, the variety of the resources used... He is the reference of the baroque period and the "caviare" and "exclusive-distinguished" art for the pianists. If Chopin/Beethoven concerts are for big-mass stadiums, Bach concerts should be played in top-high exclusive clubs. I´m still amazed how he gave us a message as a present: one single silence for his "sigh after the pain suffered" is enough to understand his unique talent (compass no 28 in BWV 847) .
Lol? Nonsense being controlled by a piano?
By innocent elephant
The Partita for Violin No. 3 at 5:23 being played is the transcription done by Rachmaninov in 1933 and not the original written by Bach. This version by Rachmaninov varies considerably since he added a jazz-style to it, and it's worth listening to both the original (usually performed on violin) and this version to see how they differ.
The same is true of 4:05 In dir ist Freude, BWV 615. This is Bach chorale that was arranged for piano by Busoni. Also, some of these works were originally incorrectly attributed to Bach (BWV 945 for example).
What are you taking?
@Diego Alberto Cobos Zavala Diego are you disputing that major liberties were taken with some of these transcriptions? They're not all bad, they're just not all Bach!
The rach transcription is garbage
@@alex_eaton talking*
Sorry
Fugues are the most complex pieces of music. The fact that he could write one at 10 years old and later in his live IMPROVISE them just proves that Bach is a genius
Fugues are not the most complex music whatsoever, quite the opposite. Because of how mathematically they are written it’s one of the first things you would learn if you do composition in a conservatory. However that is only compared to different types of composition such as ballads and rhapsodies, and Bach is a genius so his works are obviously an exception to the “easy”.
@@sati6298 I couldn't name a single piece that has more rules than a fugue
@@sati6298 Oh and maybe I described it wrong. With pieces I mean like a sonata, a piano concerto, a ballade, a toccata, etc. From the actual aspect of pieces being written then ofcourse, there's much more complex stuff out there.
@@letsbrawl945 I agree. however, the fact that there are so many rules leads to an "easier" writing experience. I didn't mean easy, it's simply more straighforward than other genres. Again this would be undersandable as composition grew in difficulty thanks to the legacy of later composers such as Bach. This doesn't take out the difficulty and genius that Bach represets.
@@sati6298 "however, the fact that there are so many rules leads to an "easier" writing experience"
By this logic bebop is easier than other forms of jazz because of the very fast changes that somewhat dictates what you can do with the melody. You're talking about composition while completely ignoring the fact that Bach was able to improvise 3 voiced fugues. Please show me someone who can do that. Many people can't even write fugues. Btw, to quote Pat Metheny - "Compared to Bach we all suck."
Bach came to this world to compose music from another world. Absolutely!!
Skills, passion, and artistic honesty. In Bach music, the formidable craftsmanship met a passionate soul.
👍У меня давно такое чувство, что Бах считывал музыку из космоса.
And to think, in his time he was basically on the same level of respect as a common craftsman.
Yet I still must think that he must have been channeling music
FROM the other world. @@cerenaseawell5753
@RandomAverageCat that's exactly what I was thinking about the second movement of the concerto for 3 harpsichords in Dm. th-cam.com/video/Poyb8XcYbXE/w-d-xo.html
I like how Bach is depicted wearing a grey powdered wig even at 10 years old
That was the fashion
Children in noble households (noble children as well as servants) and in clerical service wore them whenever they fulfilled a public role.
AI generated
😂😂
You merely adopted the wig, and Bach was born in it, moulded by it.
Bach created every thing possible under tonal system. Some harmonic tensions seen only 200 years later were discovered by him.
See the major seventh suggestions after 1727
Never wrote an opera, though.
@@SpaceCattttt By choice, It wasn't his musical scene. But his Cantatas and especially his Passions are extremely operatic.
@@SpaceCattttt his Protestant audience did not want him to write operas. He had to settle for church oratorios.
You know Bach is genius shen he compose THAT LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY when 10 years old
He was forced to learn like any other "blessed" childs of that time lol
That fugue is a spurious work. But yes, he was indeed a genius
@@wolfilius2514 can you elaborate?
@@kakhigiorgadze8487 elaborate what, i'm sorry? It was a spurious work, at first thought to be composed by the young Bach
@@wolfilius2514 yes I understand, I think it is impossible for a 10 year old to compose a fuge of this level. However can you tell me who composed or why they thought a 10 year old Bach did?
Tracing the evolution of Bach's music from his youth to his mature years is truly enlightening. It's fascinating to witness the growth, depth, and refinement in his compositions over time. This video offers a rare glimpse into the genius of one of the greatest composers in history. Highly recommended for any music enthusiast!
Bach's music is for the eternity.
Or maybe even the music OF the eternity. The Celestial sleep.
@@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole yeah, I would say is come FROM eternity.
@@EndingSimple ES, you should see my Bach A432 conversions on my channel here. I have a color-shape fir each note.
or should I say, BY the Eternity.
@@tasmanianlord5269 Eternally yours, _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
The Toccata in G Major, BMW 916 (1714) is a thing of beauty. I personally felt in that moment, after listening up to that point, that that's when his composition probably started to mature....
Of course I may be wrong as he wrote thousands of works, and I am not aware of all of them... maybe he wrote something more beautiful when he was younger...
But this piece felt like a turning point to me..... What a great teacher and musician... Bach was the best there's ever been.
The Passacaglia and Fugue was an early work. 1706-1713, not known exactly. But that's definitely a great work.
Everything Bach wrote sounds like mathematical perfection. He truely was a genius... 🔥🔥🔥
He was also a person who enjoyed maths and had fun doodling maths on scores. So...
But marthesstudio, these pieces are played by a "mathematics engine", a sequencer with only few if any human adjustments, so it is "mathematically perfectly rendered notes" we are hearing here. However, it is still a bit interesting, especially because the editor here has chosen to show so many differents sides of JSB - and on a "modern piano-sound", - so remember this is "virtual instruments and virtual performers" or just digital music.
That's because baroque music utilizes chords...which Bach simply mirrored in retrograde...he could only compose within the constraints of the keyboard layout. It will always sound like "math" but he wasn't doing math.
Much like Antonio Vivaldi!
I think, he was definitly high-sensitiv! Sing his Oratorie, an you feel, how deep his heart was.... sorry for my english, greatings from germany
I thought I could not love Bach any more, but that baby pic is so adorable
It's AI
i think you'll find that his development as a man correlates with the enhanced use of dissonance, chromaticism, modulation and emotional depth. his early recordings sound much like what imitation bach sounds like, kind of complex but happy and with broadly common sounding melodic lines, everything after age 19 of his starts to sound like bach as we know him so well. one striking thing that occurs is that as he becomes a much older man contrapuntal method becomes extremely powerful and almost God like in it's ability, it is just this unreal multi voice force of nature that no child could write, only after years of toil.
I'm currently learning BWV 645 (sleepers awake). it is an absolute piece of genius and you see that it's simplicity is deceptive, the swing and sway that Bach achieves between the two voices is insane and if you don't have your rhythm and tempo to the T then you're done for and you might as well go back to school lol.
This is a fantastic recording/demonstrating what I mean about this piece. also the horn soloing it is just beautiful: th-cam.com/video/KyWOIKCtjiw/w-d-xo.html
Bach: handful of paintings showing a man of infinite talent.
Me: infinite selfies and barely a handful of talent!
Also, I was bummed not to see his Brandenburg Concertos here, they were amongst my favorites to play (violin & viola).
Totally agree! I've wore out my collection of the Brandenburg Concertos on my 'original' albums. I bought them on CD as well.
Nah man please don't compare yourself to bach
He was a man of his kind and given his talent and intellect from god، completely different time and conditions
His entire family were strictly musicians, music was flowing in his blood and he had dedicated his whole life composing
People nowadays will never understand the genius, talent, and musical awareness that this man has. He is one of if not the best and most talented Musicians and Composers of all time
No, nobody. Ever. Never ever. Not a single person. Nope. Not one. Just about every generation for hundreds of years have understood the genius, talent, and musical awareness that this man has.
But sadly, it will now come to an end. What a shame.
Well maybe if they don’t hear it, but something would be off with your brain and you couldn’t tell the man was a genius
Le Capriccio est ADAGIO et non PRESTO.
lol...and you do?
@@Kolfonik right?! I mean, thats why the Ninja Turtles are named after these amazing chefs! 😆
But seriously... Thinking that all the sudden people will just forget these songs or composers is bizarre. Even middle school bands play versions of these. It's not like Juliard is going anywhere... Absolutely ridiculous to think they'll just be forgotten.
This evolution series of the great composers is one of the most valuable and enjoyable experiences on youtube
10s: gran estudiante 20s: espontaneidad explosiva 30s: magia pura 40s: nostalgia 50s: maestría 60s: minimalismo
Describir una pieza barroca como “minimalista” es una contradicción completamente.
When they were deciding what recordings to put on the gold discs attached to the Voyager spacecraft, the scientist Carl Sagan said "We could put the complete works of Bach on them... but that would just be showing off!"
At ten years old, Bach was much better than me trying to learn composition on my age of 37 years old.
I can ensure you at 10yo he was better than 99.99% of musicians today
Bach was the only 10 year old kid in all of history that could write on this level of harmonic complexity, so ...
That's relative
Don’t feel bad, we’re talking about someone who’s genius is unparalleled to this day
"Compared to Bach, we all suck". Pat Metheny.
It's crazy that a 10 year old kid is just so good at counterpoint and and fugue writing which many people really struggle with in music school
I was struggling with the alphabet when I was that age.
different times I guess.
I am 10 ½ years old. And thogh. It seems easy to me. I'll give it a try
@@charlesthomas5956 nice confidence. Hope you get there buddy, a new Bach would be thrilling.
@@VeguldenZilverling Yeah right?
WHAT!!! NO ITALIAN CONCERTO! One of the most joyful compositions he ever wrote!!
If you do Liszt's next, Apparition No. 1 is a BEAUTIFUL piece for the age of 23!
Seeing it in a timeline really changes the feel of it. I poped a tear.
My favorite composer🎶🎼
Our*
@@Bwv1046wow im so suprised. By your pfp I though you favorite composer was Beethoven or Mozart
This is something. Shows Bach getting better and better, and that is something. Being hearing impaired, I appreciate the visual of the lines moving down. That allows me to see the structure of the music, and this keeps me from losing attention to what I'm hearing. Its easy to be hypnotized by the music and just fall into a trance.
after 12 years of uploading this man is still going Respect
Crazy how after you listen to masterpiece after masterpiece in this video, you're still only hitting the top on the iceberg.
Bach, simply the best.
This evolution is an extraordinary way to present a composer's art. Please do more...Handel, Scarlatti, born the same year as Bach would be especially interesting. I see Beethoven on my play list...
Beethoven development from his twenties to thirties was unbelievable
dude had reached his peak at 30 year old and and in my opinion he became the greatest musician of all time probably. (I'd put him of the same scale with bach and mozart, I equally love them)
I did not realize that he wrote his Toccata and Fuge in D at age of 22, holy crap!
I think the videos actually wrong here, I believe it's speculated that Bach was 19 when he wrote that, but there's loads of mystery surrounding that piece and no one actually knows. There's actually people out there who believe Bach didn't even write it lol
That's because he basically wrote the same style of music throughout his life, he just got more proficient in that style. Compare with Beethoven - there's no way you could mistake something he wrote at 20 with something he wrote nearer the end of his life.
@@jackflynn-oakley1937 I'm one of those people lol
It sounds nothing like anything else he wrote. The heavy use of parallel lines is a dead giveaway.
air on the g string is .... so ... so beautiful ....
Do Liszt next!
Yes!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This premiers february 15 2023 only you franz liszt
Ill be patiëntly waiting for my turn.
With the Liszt’s Via Crucis in it, that would be perfect 👌
@@giuseppemoscato8328 ah, a man of culture
The greatest human being that ever lived, and will ever live.
That is so insane great composer yes greatest human being is too much of a stretch.
But Mozart was touched by God✨
@@LSW501 So how do you explain Schubert? He was an atheist.
@@robinblick9375 Bach literally wrote "Soli Deo Gloria", which means "For the glory of God only" in all his pieces.
@@robinblick9375All our talents come from God. It’s sad when ones so blessed do not realize it.
Dude Bach wrote a Fugue at AGE 10 !!!!!!!!!
What a Lingling.......
I wish deadmau5 would write a Fugue
@@JoshBreakdowns deadmau5 could honestly be a pretty good classical composer
@@plootyluvsturtle9843 listen to Chopin Prelude no. 20 and then deadmau5 Clockwork back-to-back
He didn't. BWV 945 is a "spurious work", which means that there isn't sufficient evidence to prove that it was actually written by him. Scholars estimate that it dates around 1695-1700, which is a very large margin of error. It could have been written when he was 15 or later, or earlier. We just don't know.
ikr, and here I'm still struggling with 3 part harmony
Very interesting to see him use more dissonance as the baroque era progresses
Bach was a master of counterpoint technique. He was also a genius attuned to his time, adopting the temperate scale based on the mathematical advances of the time represented by the logarithmic scale.
This pieces sound best when they are not played by a computer, you take all the life out of them.
Yeesh you should have heard the robot playing fantasy impromptu seriously dead on arrival
I mean, for Bach, I generally hear very strict, metronomic interpretations without much in the way of dynamics anyway, person or MIDI, with the exception of toccatas. But suites, chorales, fugues especially, very metronomic.
Same with Beethoven as far as tempo steadiness goes, I typically hear a very steady tempo in Beethoven. Maybe just a tad more rubato than Bach, but almost imperceptible. And nothing like what I hear in Chopin.
@@caterscarrots3407 You make a good point on the tempo issue, but i feel that this midi plays the pieces two dynamics louder than needed
Theyre also played incorrectly lol
There is so much inherent life in these compositions! Do you not hear it...?
Tocatta y fuga en D m a los 22 años???...
Lo admiro aún mas... maravilloso JS Bach!
I am not specialist but I cannot understand why this is evolution. For me the works of the 10-years-old Bach are so genial as the ones from the later times. It seems to be a genius just from the beginning till the end of his life.
Il n'y a pas forcément d'évolution en effet.. Il a juste composé à tout âge....les toccatas 910-916 (À écouter par Glenn Gould), oeuvres de toute beauté et écriture, Il les a composé vraiment jeune , là on nomme une (bwv 916) à 28 ans, mais moi j'avais entendu à 18 ans aussi.
Написать знаменитую Токкату и Фугу в 22 года - это что-то! Если сравнить с современными 22-летними, это даже не небо и земля, а разные вселенные!
The greatness and comfort and wonderfulness of Bach is immeasurable, and unfathomable, and off the charts
So many delightful notes!!! Thank you for a brilliant video.
10:51 They should have given the guy who made the painting a raise.
I am willing to bet money that most of those portraits were generated by AI on the basis of those that weren't...
@@alexscorner4047 What do you mean exactly?
@@Bwv1046 i.e. you give an AI model the following inputs: an existing painting (like the very famous one of Bach holding a score) and a prompt like "make a painting of this man 10 years later in the same style as this painting" and then the AI will generate a new image of the person aged by 10 years as per the prompt. Therefore, if you have a couple of existing paintings of a person at different ages you can use them to generate a lot more in the same style at different ages.
@@alexscorner4047 you're right I've never seen those painting they really must be an AI made
The one artist i always come back to as my favorite
His music definitely got more emotional and darker as he aged. Guess the weight of life can be tough.
Yes, ive heard he was very catholic so maybe he expressed his proximity to God and the divine in his music when he got older and closer to death, thus closer to God?😅
10 year old Bach really said 😐
😂
Yea my boi has chubby cheeks
15 year old Bach really said 🐷
Obviously AI generated
He looked so cute at 10 fr
Your channel is very educational, thanks for sharing
Great idea! My favorite work by J.S.Bach is the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.
That’s a beautiful and powerful piece
A great exhibition of the work of the greatest composer of all time!
Bro was making a fugue as his first piece, he really must have taken some good education to do something like that
His ancestors was musicians, he had minesingers
So his education should be really good
I am afraid it was a spurious work
@@wolfilius2514 Terrible opinion.
@@terminatos Probably, but he was early a self-learning student, sitting by candle light and copied the old music to learn from it. The story about his childhood in his brother`s house (Bach`s parents died early) is well known.
@@sakura44553 yes, brother destroyed copyes
It is sad
And Bach became blind to old age
hi you've done a super work... a masterpiece with masterpieces.. thank you so much!
Even in older ages not losing his creativiness just damn amazing
It seems that I still have a lot to learn about Bach.
Don’t learn about Bach. Learn about me. I fart Melodie’s better then him.
the music is sublime and particularly his latest works where he explores the edges of tonality, but two pieces had particular spot for me when i first heard Bach, the Capriccio in B Flat major and the Goldberg Variations
thanks Marioverehrer, i love this kind of videos!
What a wonderful presentation. Of course your head some great material to work with. Thanx!
God damn! That's better than Mozart's efforts at 10! Mathematically precise, with great counterpoint. And this without a helicopter father pushing him like a beast of burden (as far as I can tell), trotting him around the major courts of Europe like a trained circus animal. How is Bach not included in the "little boy genius" pantheon of Western culture???
Well, he had his family legacy to hound him. Bach's family was something of a music dynasty, so... yeah.
Probably because Mozart got all the "child wonder" publicity in such high places.
Basically, Mozart was SEEN doing this as a child. Bach wasn't. Not to the same degree, at least.
JS Bach, Master of Masters, forever unbeatable, backwards and forwards in the history of music.
When in saw the notification of the video I was just so excited 😍😍😍😍
I've been waiting for this one
@@JoshBreakdowns me too 😍😍
Great Contribution. Thanks 💜
Next is Liszt or vivaldi or handel right?
Handel?
@@ArkhosGaming-x2lyes Handel. Do you think what did me say? Ok next is Liszt or Vivaldi
@@GiaKhânhMario 😁👍
@@ArkhosGaming-x2l 😁👍
The next both are Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Bach is literally the GOAT
I wish I had a list of ALL of Bach's pieces in the order written.
I think it's very hard to know. Because Bach reworked a lot of his compositions and included them in various pieces of music. Then near the end of his life he apparently destroyed a lot of stuff he wasn't satisfied with. Add that in with the fact that a whole lot is missing even among that which was originally preserved and it's a difficult question when everything was composed. Also, there is the question of when it was originally composed and when and how extensively it was originally reworked.
Its over 30000 musics
Bach is the only musician to give me eargasms
I know all the pieces were a masterpiece, but I personally prefer this one :) 11:31
They’re called ‘pieces’ not ‘songs.’
@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._ lol pretentious much
@@hisky. calling something by the right terminology isn’t pretentious. It’s not fukinh pronouns
@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._ lol pretentious L clown 💀
@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._ Oh calm down and sorry for my mistake, now I correct it, thanks...
This is wonderful, thank you. He was stellar.
Do Tchaikovsky next!
Goldberg variations are just incredible. My favourite from this selection..
He's always amazing....
The Great Trinity of Composers is Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
FANTÁSTICO, UN PLACER ESCUCHAR OBRAS DE BACH!!!!.
Concuerdo con usted.
When you put all Bach's works together, it is stupendous. Most people would be hard put just to copy all of it in their lifetime. I am convinced he had a system. So that given a tune, he could basically flesh it out into a piece without really thinking about it. What is amazing to me is that if you write his music out as a series of chords, it still sounds amazing. That is, if you scrunch up all the notes together in the bass, so it sounds as an accompaniment, not as several melodies (as he wrote). Yet he wrote before modern chord theory emerged. I'm not explaining this well, but the thing is, he didnt just write counterpoint as FUX taught - adding accompanying melodies to each other in a way that the notes didnt clash - but the piece have the chordal drive that pieces conceived harmonically have. Further, his chromaticism was extraordinary. At times he modulated so quickly he's just transitioning through keys from one to another, almost so much that its no longer really tonal music, but it still sounds tonal. All this gives a huge richness to his sound that later, classical composers just dont have. Neither do his contemporaries, like Handel. But how was this done? As I say, he wrote at such a rate that he cant have worked on pieces like you or I, but more like simple calculation. A bag of tricks that generate rich music.
Learning to compose myself (poorly) shows me how easy it is to make music that isnt unpleasing, just following very simple rules. But there is a huge leap from that to writing something that comments on the meaning of existence - like the 13:08 Matthew Passion above. Some of these tricks are visible - note the opening pedal point - the repeated bass note - which adds ominousness.
Mais dans d' innombrables oeuvres de Bach il y a une grande beauté mélodique. Et ça même en suivant les règles , tu ne peux pas le produire . Tu peux juste produire quelque chose d' assez froid.
G'day, Mariovereher! I'm really enjoying this video of the progression of Bach's music over the course of 55 years. I have one question, though, about the famous Hausmann portrait shown at the 50 years old mark. Wasn't that painted when Bach was in his 60's?
Never stop playing bach keep going strong
The fact that he lived at the same time as the notorious Pirate Blackbeard just blew my mind. They even had approximately the same age.
Yep. Plenty of other things happened around the world when Bach was alive. Peter the Great assumed the throne of Russia and modernized the place. The Kangxi Emperor in China finally quelled the Ming rebellion that killed at least 10 million Chinese. Aurangzeb, the last renowned Mughal emperor, died and India fell into civil war. Gold was discovered in Brazil, Beijing became the largest city in the world, and Hawaii and Tahiti were discovered by British explorers.
Bach actually road on blackbeards ship for a year playing lovely tunes for his crew and partaking in small time looting. Little known fact.
@@jackspinner4727where did you got this information?
He made it the fuck up
Great Job! Wonderful. Bach is back!
I love Bach's partita.
imagine how hard it was for him at 65 years of age to play the organ, that's probably the reason the compositions were simpler
No other artist has been able to make God so believable!
Damn right
Why?
maravilloso trabajo............gracias por ese análisis d Bach
Here's hoping you do Handel, my favorite of the Baroque composers
Scriabin would be incredibly interesting, especially being able to see his decline in sanity
Scriabin may have suffered from mental illness at the end of his life, and he may have had other (physical/mental) health issues. But there wasn't the type of connection between his musical output and his mental health as is being suggested.
He had an unusual philosophy, and his music got more harmonically complex over time, but this wasn't a symptom of a "decline in sanity". His later pieces aren't the works of a crazy person. :-)
Unlike Schumann who had serious mental issues at the end of his life and who's musical output was impacted by this. And unlike the connection between Beethoven's deafness and his musical output.
@@emilgilelsYou make a strong point, but I have to disagree on the claim that his decline in mental health had little to no effect on his compositions. For the last ten years of his life, Scriabin worked on a piece called Mysterium. Its premiere was said to have been a week long event that would bring the end to the world. Sadly this was never finished. If Scriabin was sane, I don't think he would attempt to create something as crazy as that. Not to mention his fear of his sixth piano sonata.
Someone who thinks they are God is clearly not mentally sane, and that definitely reflected in his compositions.
@@Arobamod I'm familiar with this composition, and with his 'philosophy'. The sketches were completed and there's a recording of them with Ashkenazy conducting (it's on TH-cam!).
He certainly had a peculiar philosophical world view. He may have had "narcissistic personality disorder". Maybe we'd call him a megalomaniac. But when we listen to his completed compositions we aren't listening to a musical depiction of "craziness". ;-)
By the way I love all his music - early, middle, and late period. And if you haven't read it there is a good biography of him (the author is Faubion Bowers) that is not too hard to find on the internet if you try to look for it. ;-)
@@Arobamod Why does your channel not have much views. And why did you quit making videos. I know it bc i was looking on your channel
@@charlesthomas5956 I quit because it would be useless for me to keep making midi videos when there are countless other channels doing the exact thing but better, like this one.
Bach never gets old!
And when he does, he only gets better.
The E major prelude is not pure JSBach, it is Rachmaninov's adaption of the E-major prelude from the suite/partita in E major for violin (solovl.)
Thank you. I knew something was off harmonically
A los 22 años haber compuesto la Tocata y Fuga. Un genio
Very clever. Are those digital computer conceptions of how he might have looked as a child and teen?
Bach was the metalhead of his time
Vivaldi - La folia might change your mind :)
@@Sam-gx2ti Listen to Geminianis version of Corellis La Follia
@@hindenburg1596 I shall!
Bach was more like Psychedelic of his time.
Ofcourse, you have Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Beethoven but no one comes close to Bach's heavy metal organ composition. Period.
How did he age so much from 43 to 45 then suddenly look young again at 50
Because those portraits are not of Bach.
Kidding aside, I believe the portrait shown here at age 50-51 is the only accurate portrait we have of Bach. It's too bad there are no other portraits in existence.
He was an old man with gray hair at age ten 😂
Most of the "portraits" are not of Bach at any age. And I might add, the whole video I don't condemn but . . . it is not conceived or executed on an informed enough basis. But, it's not badly done and at least it IS done and is something.
Il avait fait un lifting et pris des crèmes pour rajeunir achetées en pharmacie...😉 .
At 5:20 we hear a keyboard arrangement of the prelude from BWV 1006 (or 1006a or 1006.1), which may have been a violin piece or lute piece, who knows. Bach also arranged this for orchestra in Cantata 29. Rachmaninoff's arrangement for piano sounds similar to the arrangement on this video.
Convinced that Bach was an alien who fundamentally changed the planet.
All are very beautiful
From the video, it seems that Bach acquired the ability to compose very beautiful melodies in his thirties.
My exactly thought
Your 30's is basically when most musicians reach some kind of expert level playing and/or theory. It's either that or you burn out before getting to that point. I know all the scales, chords, a lots of complicated ideas and have applied it all to my practice so that I am able to play whatever I want, whenever I want and basicaly always sound good. I can't just magically play everything instantly, but I'm highly Ear trained and able to always figure out how to play a tune just by hearing it and nothing is over my head anymore. People don't like theory, because It's really not fun to study in the begining easily and is difficult to stay motivated with, that is until you actually get everything figured out. You begin to find it harder to play something that doesn't sound good and you become incredibly diverse in your ability. Being too repetitive and running out of ideas when creating becomes much less of a problem. Bach is a genius for his great work, but he did suffer from a kind of musical tunnel vision, as does basicaly everyone.
@@dickrichard626 You're right even
Beethoven was considered the most complete at his thirties
@@dickrichard626even David gilmour seemed to have some musical tunnel vision.
ONE HALF of Cantor Bach’s music was lost after it was confiscated by a duke. The music was stored in a barn, which later caught fire destroying all of that music.
Fenómeno que a Bach, ya a los 10 años hacia cosas fugadas, genio
Chronologie intéressante ! Dommage que le piano soit le seul instrument utilisé pour illustrer la musique de Bach, alors qu'il a composé aussi pour l'orgue, l'orchestre ... !
CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE
Very nice, but I can't help it with the tempo of the capriccio in bflat major (19yo). The true tempo marking is arioso-adagio😅 not presto like it was played here
The first one sounds strangely modern and he made this at 10 blows me away
The GOAT 🐐
Спасибо за подборку!