Bach - Episode 19 

I can't thank you enough for your kind words and for sharing my work. I don't know if it's all that accurate and sometimes I twist the facts a little to make the story more interesting for the average audience. Though it makes me very happy to know that you find it almost addictive to watch because that means that I've achieved my goal, i.e. to bring Bach a bit closer to the people. Thank you very, very much!

It is I who has to thank you for all your kind comments. If you feel moved by these cartoons then I have achieved everything I could ever hope for. Thank you, with all of my heart. PS: if all goes well, episode 20 will be ready within 2 weeks. 😊

Thank you so very much for your kind words, Peter. Yes, I put a lot of love and care in my work and I'm especially happy that you, being such an expert, agree with the way I portray Bach's life. Sometimes I take a few artistic liberties to make the story more compelling, but in the end Bach's life was quite dramatic and the story will become sadder and sadder. Watch out for episode 20... fireworks guaranteed! 😆 Cheers!

Thanks for your kind reply. HAPPY EASTER 😀

Thank you very much. I'm sorry, but it's always months of work. This episode wasn't particularly long but it was extremely tedious because there were so many "puppets" to draw and animate (classroom, orchestra etc...). Now onto the next. :-) Cheers from Italy!

Oh... what a beautiful comment! Now I truly am speechless... What you describe is more than any content creator could ever wish for and I'm so thrilled that you appreciate the work and the very steep learning curve I have to go through every day with animation. Thank you, with all of my heart! I'm currently working on the final scene of ep. 20 so just a little bit more patience... 😊

Thank you, mate! You know that a compliment from someone who knows animation so well like you means very much to me. Cheers!

Thank you! I keep trying very hard. 😊

Thank you so much, David. Hmmm... Leo may return in a couple of years, but he won't be speaking a lot... 😉

Every music piece should be considered in the light of what drove the composer to write it. Mozart's Don Giovanni or Schubert's 10th... The music I used with the orphans is actually a bit older and comes from WTK1. I just wanted to show that these poor boys had one light in their lives... every day they could hear Bach himself play.

Now that's an original way of putting it! 😆

Thank you so much for your kind words, Mitch! Yes, I really try to show Bach as the ordinary man he was, with his genius but also with his weaknesses and the hardships circumstances forced upon him. Perhaps I've twisted the facts here or there in order to enhance the drama or to make the story more exciting to watch, though I hope that people appreciate how I portrayed him. Such a lovely comment from a person who knows Bach so well such as you, is all I ever hoped to achieve. Thank you once again!

Oh, it'll get a lot worse! 😆 Thank you very much!

You're absolutely right. It's ironic that most famous composers had miserable lives and the ones who were rich and famous back then are now mostly forgotten.

Hello JM and thank you very much for your comment! You made a few interesting topics for discussion and I'll try to give you my opinion here so you'll understand why I portrayed Bach in this particular way. In those days, your superior had absolute power over you and their authority could not be questioned. As a musician, you were a servant to your master and even as we reach the Age of Enlightenment and Bach's former boss Prince Leo must have had a very friendly relationship with Bach (he was also much younger), this was very exceptional. Bach was actually very lucky that the Duke of Weimar only threw him in prison for a month, because only a couple of years earlier the same Duke had had a violinist hanged because he wanted to leave the Duke's court! About Bach's second marriage, yes, the two were probably very happy and very much in love, but I'm pretty sure that their arrival in Leipzig wasn't so happy. Losing 3/4 of their income, having to live in a small flat that was in a very bad shape and with mould everywhere... it certainly wasn't what they were used to in Köthen. Moreover, in Leipzig AM wasn't allowed to perform music in public so she was out of a job and confined at home. Even happy marriages have their bad moments and my imagination leads me to believe that this "adjustment" to their new situation must have been one of them. On top of that, Bach's children of his first marriage almost certainly didn't like AM, as proves the fact that they all left her to rot after Bach died. She was merely 21, not much older than Dotty and they probably saw her as a gold-digger, certaiy not as their new "mother". I believe that also this must have created a lot of tensions on the household. Bear in mind that in the 18th century, and specifically in a puritan place like Saxony, a woman was considered almost the "property" of her husband, so in a sense I'm portraying Bach as very modern because many men in the day wouldn't have accepted a woman so openly challenging their authority, or they would have beaten or even flogged her. Bach at least listens to what AM thinks and in the end he doesn't get violent. The "terrible" comment, was not about religion as such, but about those lyrics "Heart and mouth and deed and life". If you look into the lyrics of many Bach cantatas... well, they're actually quite terrible! So Bach's comment was more in the sense like: "Oh dear, how am I going to make a decent cantata with such terrible lyrics?" And it'll get much, much worse. But that'll be for future episodes. 😆 I hope that this clarifies why I made the episode this way, though I very much look forward to hearing your opinion.

Thank you, Peter. I hope that you'll like it. 😊

Thank you very much! That pen scratching's just perfect! 😊

It's an honour to have you on board. You're the perfect vicar... 😆

Oh my! I could never have imagined that someone would like it so much as to watch it multiple times! Thank you so very much!!! 😆

Thank you! I hope that you'll like it. 😊

Dear Alexandru, as always, your comments are a joy to read. It's great to know that you appreciate my work so much and that you agree with the way I portray Bach... a man who created the most heavenly music but who wasn't free of flaws as well... an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent. Yes, he looks a bit like me because I need a model to accurately draw all the facial expressions and angles and looking in the mirror is the easiest way to do this. 🤣 Cheers, my friend. You've made me very happy. 😊

It's an honour to have you on the series. You're an amazing actress! Thank you!!! 😊

Thank you very much!!! 😆

Hello!

Thank you for the wonderful compliment! 😊

@@BachTheAnimatedSeries Stop watching youtube any moment and listen to Bach 🙂 Jokes aside, I would like to make a little Paypal donation, money seems to go to Peter Vercauteren but no clues on the internet on him and Bach animated series. Is this ok?

​@@lucamarchiori2566Hello Luca and my apologies for the late reply... something went wrong because I didn't get any message about your reply. Please don't feel obliged to send me a donation... You're way too kind. If you insist, the correct address is info@propatria.be and, yes, you should see Peter Vercauteren, which is my real name. I use the artist name "Fielding" because my real name would sound a bit strange to non-Flemings... 😂 Grazie infinite!

Thank you!!! Cancun? Wow... my wife's already packing her suitcases... 🤣

@@BachTheAnimatedSeries ☺️

Didn't know you were from Cancun... you're lucky, bro... Well, I know that hurricanes can happen, but still I think you're lucky, I guess? Well, congratulations.

@@jmrabinez9254 yeah, hurricanes happen al along the Caribbean sea, we get one every once in a while. But sunny weather and blue skies and white sand and warm sea! We get that almost every single day!