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21 Feb 2024 Conversations with Tyler Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
“From one side, he must have been very happy to compose the organ works, the instrumental works, also secular cantatas and so on, but probably he wished to do more work in the Lutheran world, or the Lutheran church and so on. That’s why he moved to Leipzig, I think.”
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- 21 Feb 2024
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…When Bach is in Köthen in what was East Germany, which was Calvinist at the time, but he’s composing mainly secular works, how do you frame that? Why did he do that? Oh, he didn’t have a chance to compose any Lutheran cantata at the time. From one side, he must have been very happy to compose the organ works, the instrumental works, also secular cantatas and so on, but probably he wished to do more work in the Lutheran world, or the Lutheran church and so on. That’s why he moved to Leipzig, I think. Let’s go back and just talk about your career, your history a bit. You’re 12 years old, and all of a sudden, you hear Karl Richter’s recording of Bach’s B-Minor Mass.…
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