Previous posts for May 3rd may be found here: Richard D'Oyly Carte (2019), Virgil Fox (2020), Bing Crosby; Marcel Dupré (2021), and Pete Seeger; Florian Leopold Gassmann (2022)
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Johann Adolph Scheibe (3 [or 5] May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music.
Assessment
He considered Bach to be the finest contemporary player of the organ, harpsichord and clavichord. - Wikipedia
According to Scheibe Bach's music was artificial and confusing in style. Rather than a clear division between melody and accompaniment, Bach made all voices equal in his brand of polyphony, which Scheibe felt made the music overloaded, unnatural and oppressed. -- adapted from Wikipedia
Said Scheibe, “I’ll praise
How Herr Bach plays,
But not the ways
He makes a maze
Of every phrase
With overlays.
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