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I thought Bach was relatively obscure till Mendelssohn promoted his music to a new generation? Anyhow, there are many many great composers from different genre

• Sharlin 3y ago
  Well, between Bach and Mendelssohn, baroque music had been out of fashion for a century. Mendelssohn revived interest in Bach's music. Doesn't mean Bach wasn't renowned in his own time.
  • cesaref 3y ago
    Yes, that's a good point. It's hard to remember how long ago he was writing, until you think about stuff like the well tempered clavier, where being able to play in all keys on the same instrument is seen as a modern marvel. We are now so used to equal temperament that the compromised intervals sound normal to us, whilst they would have sounded wrong to them.
    • Sharlin 3y ago
      The major sub-periods of the Common Practice Period are roughly * Baroque c. 1600–1750 – Pachelbel, Purcell, Albinoni, Telemann, Bach, Händel, Vivaldi * Classical c. 1730–1820 – Haydn, Mozart, Salieri, Beethoven, Schubert, as well as Bach's sons C.P.E. Bach and J.C. Bach * Romantic c. 1800–1910 – Strauss, Wagner, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Dvořák, Tchaikowsky, Grieg, Sibelius with quite a bit of overlap, of course – for example Beethoven and Schubert were both influential figures in the Classical–Romantic transition.