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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci on the Transformative Power of Music
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Bar Isn't Romantic. He Was Obsessed With Numbers
Bach was like a baroque make jagger. He had 20 children but 11 of them died in infancy or childbirth. As a teenager he walks hundreds of kilometers to go to school to study music. And you say, oh no, bar isn't romantic. It's very kind of just rhythmical and mathematical. There would be 41 bars in a piece or after six bars. He wrote six of everything. Six English sweets, six partita, six French sweets, six Brandenburg and Chateau, six cello sweets. The depth of feeling, the heroism, the grief, the despair, the happiness, it all goes into it.
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