His use of rhythm was restricted in many ways, most of them by his own historical circumstance.

Wasn't he so lucky, then, to have later performers/composers/arrangers such as Jethro Tull and Sky to ease those restrictions for him?

Bach wrote a lot of rubbish as well as the brill stuff. Most of the 48 preludes and fugues in the Well-tempered Clavier suite are eminently forgettable. Except, at least, for the prelude in C# Major, which I taught myself to play on the piano because I like it so much. My parents, piano-teachers both, usually managed to find somewhere else to be when I was playing it ...




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