Felix Mendelssohn Was the First to Like Bach Again
Bach died on 28 July 1750
Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809
“Everyone loved KISS as a kid. I was the first to love KISS again.”
- King Buzzo
Bach was gone and damn near forgotten until Mendelssohn resurrected
St Matthew Passion. At the time, the rare musicians who were familiar with Bach considered his work merely “mathematical” and lacking passion (like a bad math rock band). Felix, twenty years old at the time, didn’t agree. So he took to work organizing a massive performance of St Matthew Passion. He got
Carl Friedrich Zelter who was the Head Honky in Charge at the
Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to lend him around 250 singers and the entire city of Berlin went ****ing balls to the wall nut **** about it and Bach was BACK mother****ers.
Recommended listening:
Bach: Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew's Passion) / Sir Georg Solti
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Seiji Ozawa
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Mendelssohn composed the overture when he was 17.
Nice compliment record:
MOZART Requiem / Böhm