And except perhaps in England, where Sebastian's youngest son, Johann Christian, held sway, the 'great Bach' invariably denoted J.S.'s second son Carl Philipp Emanuel, revered by Haydn and Mozart and widely acknowledged as one of the supreme composers of the age. A quarter of a century after his death, Johann Sebastian's music, while not quite forgotten, seemed marginal or irrelevant. But not in 1774, when the composer JF Reichardt penned these words. 'We have only one Bach, whose manner is entirely original and peculiar to him alone.' To us this could only mean Johann Sebastian.
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