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To: Janice Shell who wrote (22991)	5/27/1999 2:45:00 AM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26163

I read a different history of Bach and Mozart than you did. Bach made his giving music lessons, the only regular work he could get was playing in church -- noble but hardly a sign of success. Mozart died broke (and broken for that matter). Now one of the riffs from Toccata and Fugue in D minor is available as the "ring" on my Nokia telephone. Play a bit of counterpoint and even the most culturally deprived college student will at least guess it was written by Bach. Do you seriously think any success he experienced during his lifetime is equal to how famous he is today? Rembrandt, no matter how highly respected when he died, did not enjoy the fame and appreciation afforded him now. Every library has a book with prints of his paintings in it. Every school child (at least in this country) has seen at least one of his works by the time they enter High School. That was not true while he was alive, yet you would equate that degree of fame to making money off his commissions? Hardly. Everyone is an artist. For the great, it is succeeding generations which recognize, in ever greater degrees, their greatness, not the other way around. PCM