Originally posted by Azrael

Originally posted by noticingthemistake
Also life was a lot simpler then, and they’re was much time to pursue such a level of skill.

Simpler? well - hardly. what is so hard about todays life? i guess it was alot harder to get your mouth fed back in those days where you had to work REAL hard.

I think life was simpler back then, less distractions, I would think that, like other artists of the period, classical composers didn't have real jobs, people were more fascinated by simple things in life, like watching the fire and playing with hoops and sticks. No Internet, Playstation, TV, heck, not even radio or newspapers. I'd call that a simpler life!


Couldn't all this stuff about Bach putting his name into music be conspiracy theory? I mean, people find hidden codes in everything. Someone even disproved "hidden code finding" by "decoding" a fisheries act and finding words about fish, the ocean, etc. "encoded" into the text.