Re: Is Bach's music ahead of OUR time?

sagespath <sagespath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...

> On May 13, 3:39 pm, "Tom Hens" <tom.h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
<snip>
> > My translation:
> >
> > "In [teaching] composition, he immediately started his pupils on
> > practical work, leaving out all the dry distinctions between types of
> > counterpoint, as they can be found in Fux and other authors."
> >
> If Fux is so dry, why did Bach produce a richly annotated version
> of it in 1736? This has not yet been translated from the German. 

The simple answer is: he didn't.

Are you perhaps confused by the fact that one of Bach's pupils, Mitzler,
published an annotated edition of Fux?

And I notice you haven't answered my simple question as to what's wrong
with all editions of Clavierübung IV except the one by Ralph Kirkpatrick.
Or why someone who claims to be a harpsichordist and harpsichord builder
only recommends recordings of the work on piano, in particular the two by
Glenn Gould, not harpsichord recordings. It just seems rather odd.