95% is probably too way high. Maybe 60%. Bach worked 10 years as concertmaster in the Weimar court and another five or six at Coethen composing largely secular music like The Well Tempered Klavier. He spent the last 25 or so years of his life composing mainly religious music as the concert master at Leipzig. I don't think there is any reason to doubt that Bach was sincerely religious, but not a fanatic, just religious the way most educated people were in the first half of the 18th century. It sort of came with the territory, part of the wallpaper.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:31 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> > Not completely true. 95% of Bach's work -- which
> sets a good part
> > of the
> > foundation of western music is religious. joanna
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > True. But who was paying him?
>
> I'm not
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