The Omniscient Mussel

Come Here, You Old Fuddy Duddy, You

January 10, 2008 • Quotidian • 0 • |

From Sir Donald Tovey’s 1936 book entitled Normality and Freedom.

“Bach, to the few critics who knew of him otherwise than as a brilliant organist, was always hopelessly out of date. When he was nineteen he played figured chorales to Reinken, a man ninety years of age, who exclaimed: “My son!, I thought this art would die with me, but it lives again in you.”

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