The Happiest Years Of Bach’s Life | Classical Destinations With Simon Callow

The careers of J.S. Bach and Mendelssohn peaked in Leipzig; music engraving; original manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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[@maximusaugustus6823]

Simon Callow's voice soothes my soul.

[@BRG604]

Agreed. I miss him.

[@quinnriutta]

What I find interesting is to see just profound of an influence Bach has not only in Europe but also in the Americas, I live in a state called Arizona in the southwest of the US and every year we have a bach festival here as well, I always like to catch a couple of the performances.

[@christopherwall444]

So much extremely valuable and new to me info here...thank you soo much!

[@irinakrugler9158]

Beautiful series that takes us on an intimate and personal journey to see the cities where the western world's greatest composers lived and worked. Truly enjoyable!!

[@WouterTukker]

I appreciate Sir Simon Callow, however what has the background music from 8:00 to do with Bach? Do I hear there a vague echo of Bach´s first Prelude in C major from the first Book of the Well-tempered Clavier? And really, what has Leipzig to do with the happiest years of Bach´s life? Supposedly, JSB spent his happiest years at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen where he enjoyed the freedom to compose most of his grand instrumental orchestra music

[@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh]

Leipzig-?? No, i think JSB felt rather oppressed by all his duties there, including teaching Latin to incorrigible high school boys. (!) And the sufficiently musical folk who were able to cover the instrumental parts in the cantatas necessarily removed them from the choir(s). The lack of resources regularly frustrated the composer no end... By contrast, the narrator himself says that the 6 years in Cothen were the happiest time for JSB in his life.

[@maryjoburnette7589]

Western music had roots here. Great music. I am looking forward to tonight’s performance.

[@formercanadiancitizen4756]

Love this series, more more more! :)

[@Earth098]

I remember I used to love this series when I was little. Thanks a lot for uploading!!

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Still in time for sharing new Christmas gifts suggestions fans, such travels are the most inspiring ones, dating Bach fans in tour, yeah, what an unforgettable experience might be indeed. Using web connection for smart promotion is never enough fans

[@heidi-mariadegruchy7641]

Very interesting! Thank you for such an informative video!

[@mabohemesoleiletchair6203]

Thanks. Me encantan estos vídeos. Agradecería, que continúen creando estas maravillas.

[@Lieve_Saillart]

Wonderful presentations

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

These great TV documentaries are helping us realize how a certain environment is capable to pull out the genius nature from a composer, the education, the ambition, the society's huge interest for music and for visionary composers. Trying to explore the. . .human DNA secrets on generating genius artists...fans, try to guess how many more times we have to watch such documentaries. How many more mysteries to find out. Listening a professional actor comments brings me right away to the British biggest investigator, what about next time we Watch such music stars with Sherlock Holmes eyes instead?

[@nicholasburch2122]

I can not believe this was uploaded yesterday

[@jozsefnemarikavaradi8490]

Exellent classik muzik Europa

[@jasminespencer3992]

Also before the days of recorded music, selling publish sheet music was really the only way composers could make money and that’s why music publishing was so important

[@liapereira2003]

Pena, muito triste as legendas estarem desativadas 🥴😢 Perdemos por completo todo esse trabalho.

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Damn, to compose cantatas every week for Sunday services in four churches, Bach was a very busy man. It must have been tiring and stressful for him too.

[@Geopholus]

Perspective,... it would be good to get the Closed Captions corrected to match the script. I'm quite sure You mean Köthen at 2:58 not curtin. Hard to learn from a video when You are not sure what is being said. .... more at 6:51 the healing BALM of the great CHORALES.

[@jonahansen]

They are "auto generated". This is why people claim we have achieved machine translation. Do you disagree? The ones you point out are pretty innocuous - I've seen some where they haven't even parsed the ending and beginning of the words properly. Sometimes they are funny as glazed donuts!

[@deterkcraftaa1256]

-Good video-

[@claudettedelphis6476]

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[@judithwyer389]

The Ave Maria (the first prelude of the WTC in C mjr) set to a beat in the background. Really?

[@gilmaroliveira6204]

he is the Papageno from Amadeus movie..☺

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Vivat for J.S.Bach The Great Humanist !

[@pyramos5770]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren. Danke für diese wundervolle Reportage. Ich besitze ein originales Portrait von Johann Sebastian Bach in Öl aus dem Jahren um 1724 ,aus seiner Zeit in Köthen. Sollte die internationale Bach-Forschung und Sammler Interesse daran haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit mir hier in Verbindung. Danke !

[@bluesswice1981]

What is the song at the beginning?

[@WouterTukker]

@bluesswice1981 ... It is a piece by a classical composer, it has nothing to do with JSB but was chosen as a jingle for this series ...

[@jonahansen]

So, what is the purpose of music? What evolutionary advantage does it confer?

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[@earthwater9964]

At minute 13 or so, the violin solo piece... WHO writes like that?????

[@rozalinapiano]

😢 Wow The first words about Leipzig being the happiest place for Bach are a paradoxically distortive lie about struggling musician, ho begged his childhood friend Georg Erdmann to find him ANY kind of job, in order to escape hostility he suffered in this town. And rest of this video deliberately projects similar distortion, condoning the crime against humanity in the form of abusing musicians and devaluing music as the tool for elevating individual and collective consciousness

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

I usually love the productions put on by Perspective, but this is like watching paint dry, the narrator sounds absolutely lifeless. I was only able to make it 11 min in, keep in mind I’m melophile.

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Do you really believe Sherlock Holmes had no interest for classical composers at all? During Bach ages they were all having fun traveling abroad mostly by boat, so many ugly stories happened of so many ...import-export dealers, what about giving Sherlock Holmes more imaginary cases to be solved using these locations as best movie sets? What are we doing here in web connection if not spending multi billionaire tycoons money? Let's give them smart tips for strategic investiments, we have web distribution by now, three billion potential customers, crime cases are always the most intrigui spicy stories requested, let's get it straight how many unsolved cases those ages, let's get in business fans, One of my dearest ambitions using the web connection is creating jobs, projects to work on Sir Simon might be a perfect Sherlock Holmes investigator, dating Bach for real. ..and not only him of course

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[@thomasdidymus1855]

performers who show off cleavage legs clothes hair and makeup detract from any talent they have

[@grafplaten]

How about having performers wear burlap sacks and shaving their heads?

[@thomasdidymus1855]

@@grafplaten i fear that would have a similar effect - try harder...