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Bachian, n. and a.|ˈbɑːxɪən|
[f. Bach n.1 + -ian.]
A. n. One who admires or plays the music of Bach.
1920E. Newman in Bach Festival Programme 16 Apr. 5 It appears to be rooted in the nature of things that the true Bachian shall be a little condescending towards Handel. 1963Times 1 Apr. 14/1 Dr...Lofthouse is..one of our senior Bachians. He has taken part in performances of the Passions and the B minor Mass. 1975New Yorker 12 May 130/3 Wise Bachians, knowing that the matter of each cantata arises from the Gospel of the day for which it was written, and that words and music must be followed together, would have come armed with texts.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of J. S. Bach or his music.
1945Mendel & Broder tr. Einstein's Mozart (1946) xii. 206 The lessons in Bachian polyphony have borne fruit. 1960News Chron. 6 June 3/1 Polyphonic meshes that are..supremely Bachian. 1971Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 6/3 The music is neither pre-Beethoven nor particularly Bachian. 1980Early Music Jan. 53/1 Of course, Weiss' counterpoint cannot approach Bach's, and Weiss wrote only for lute, but the ‘Bachian gravity’ in his works is a very salient characteristic. |