Skip to content

Quote by John Eliot Gardiner

“We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the more dramatic of his church cantatas and Passions.” quote by John Eliot Gardiner — Download Open 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 more dramatic of his church cantatas and Passions.””

John Eliot Gardiner

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

More by John Eliot Gardiner

“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

Image

“Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics of Lully’s court operas – and yet also be the mouthpiece of a radical sense of often beleaguered individuality. By 1700 music had developed techniques capable of dividing and ordering time and of holding the attention…

John Eliot Gardiner

“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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 9 John Eliot Gardiner quotes