Denis Matthews in Royal Grammar School, Worcester - 1932
from In Pursuit of Music, pages 27-28:
The reverse had happened to me during the first of my ill-fated lessons with Sir Ivor Atkins at Worcester. Hoping to be given a Beethoven sonata to study – I had ‘learnt’ the Appassionata on a neighbour’s pianola – my face must have fallen when he offered me Bach’s Two-part Inventions. He noticed this, turned me off the piano, played, sang, gesticulated, dissected and explained.
I succumbed quickly as the seemingly dry notes leapt into life, for although this most modest sample of Bach might be dismissed as a mere exercise it … more >>
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 27-28. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1476998180134 accessed: 8 October, 2024
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Two-part Invention in C major, BWV772
written by Johann Sebastian Bach |
performed by Ivor Algernon Atkins |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1932 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:16:20 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 11:22:11 +0100