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		Ericson2314 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in... He wasn't so "commercial" because he was doing more complex and countrapuntal music after it was falling out of fashion, and he never did an opera, which was all the rage.

reactordev 22 days ago [–]

In his home land of Germany, it wasn’t about the opera, it was about the church - and Bach obliged.

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