"This skillful man ... has to play some written music which is inferior to his own ideas. Nevertheless his superior ideas are the consequences of those inferior ones."
–– unknown theology student, 1741 re: German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
* Bach played "lesser" music to get his brain going and to stimulate ideas he would use for his own improvisation and composition
Source: Range Widely, blog by David Epstein via: Austin Kleon newsletter, June 30, 2023
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 68.
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