Por que Bach é tão importante?

Chopin said, "Study Bach. There you will find everything." Beethoven said, "It's not a stream (Bach), but an ocean should be his name." Mozart said, "Now, finally, a man from whom one can learn." Brahms said, "Try as you may, you will always find yourself before him: Bach." ========== If you are a beginner on the piano, register now (at no cost) for my Mini Piano Course for Beginners: https://www.aprendendopiano.com.br/mi... ========== There is a musical technique that the West developed and that did not exist before in any other society. A musical art that was only practiced in the West. What is it? Counterpoint! What is counterpoint? Imagine one person singing a song here, another singing another song there, another singing another song over there, and all of this combines and remains independent at the same time. Imagine a carpet where you have independent designs on it, and at the same time the designs relate to each other and form a new, grand design. Counterpoint is the art of writing two or more simultaneous melodies. They need to combine with each other and at the same time be an independent melody. Now, do you know who, among all the musicians in history, mastered this technique more brilliantly than all the others? None other than our beloved João Sebastião Riacho. Bach. He mastered what the West discovered in the most elaborate and significant form of music. To understand why Bach is so great, it's worth observing a very short excerpt from one of his pieces, or just a measure, and realizing that it's like a grain of sand or something very small where you find an image of the entire universe, as if the richness that exists in that tiny grain corresponds, on a smaller scale, to the richness that exists in all of creation? The same relationship exists in Bach's work between a minute detail and the whole. Thus, in the microcosm, that is, in the smallest part, we find, in a certain way, all the music that we will see in the whole. The whole then corresponds to the partial, since the whole is the product of the partial. Bach is great because his work is the work that most reveals the larger structure within a smaller framework. You have independent lines that together form a much broader meaning, but these independent figures themselves have their own meaning. Furthermore, if you remove a piece of any line, the whole work falls apart, the entire structure is affected. So Bach's work is important because it reflects the work of Creation in music in the best way a human being has ever managed to achieve. But this wouldn't be the case if there weren't another aspect. A piece of music can be written based on all the techniques in the world and still not portray silly, vulgar emotions, or be merely too mathematical and cold. But Bach is not just that; the man managed to understand the workings of those 12 notes so well that, in addition to understanding their possible combinations, he knew the meaning, the inner reason for each combination, the logos of each musical gesture. He perceived what those note combinations truly were. It's a control of someone who seems to have created this beast called music. And to crown it all, he had a good taste that borders on superhuman. Good taste is an understatement; the criteria for choosing what he would emotionally convey with his works were so sublime that it seemed almost inhuman. He combined the notes with more mastery than anyone else and guided emotions in a nobler way than any other composer. Bach didn't write one piece of good music, another so-so, another bad, and another marvelous. That doesn't exist. Everything he wrote is equally marvelous because everything reflects this complete mastery of the musical language. I could list here the technical innovations Bach brought to music, such as being the first to write music in all keys with the same instrument tuning, the use of the thumb when playing keyboard instruments, and how didactic he is for training anyone who wants to study music on the face of the earth. But I want to focus on what truly amazes a person who encounters a piece by Bach and doesn't understand the theoretical aspects. It's as if they've encountered a natural phenomenon that a human being is incapable of achieving. Let's not create false gods; Bach was a man who used a technique. But he was the one who mastered that technique best. Bach is the musician par excellence, the musician of musicians. He was the one who used the mathematics of sonic proportions to reveal the heavens. ========== Contact us: Instagram:   / felipescagliusireal   Email: [email protected]