[RayChuang88]

Interestingly, during his lifetime Johann Sebestian Bach was actually disliked by his patrons in what is now eastern Germany despite all the great music J.S. Bach wrote. It wasn't until when composer Felix Mendelssohn performed St. Matthew's Passion in 1829 that people started to recognize Bach's genius.

In those days, composers like Joseph Haydn were far better-known, mostly because his music reached a wide audience.

[freepertoo]

Shameful disregard! But then, Mozart, for all his genius and contributions to art and civilization, was buried as a pauper in a mass grave and his grave is lost. I often wondered why SOMEONE who loved his work couldn't at least have sprung for a funeral! So my sympathies on the disregard shown J.S. Amazing how short sighted people can be. Sometimes it takes stepping away a few hundred years to really see the sun shine!