Johann Adolph Scheibe went down in history for attacking Bach’s “turgid and confused” style.
“…from the natural to the artificial, and from the lofty to the obscure ... one wonders at the painful labor of it all, that nevertheless comes to nothing, since it is at variance with reason.”
Let’s examine the controversy from the beginning.
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