“Mattheson was perhaps too clever for his own good; nonetheless the smart money was on this sophisticated and broadly educated polymath. Later on he wrote about music from the vantage point of practical experience, not only as an observer but… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.” — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see it in… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“His naivety was of the sort that Descartes no doubt had in mind when he concluded that the study of history, like travel, while… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Mattheson was perhaps too clever for his own good; nonetheless the smart money was on this sophisticated and broadly educated polymath. Later on he… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.’17 The same could be… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
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