All the great master composers like Bach must have learned how to literally write music by copying scores of other composers. On what to compose the Bach Bass Rules manual by Bach, Niedt must have played an extremely important role too. See previous posts.
There were no photocopying machines at that time.
Bach must have been copying for example the Italian composers like Vivaldi, Marcello etc. he also make great aranngments of their concerts for keyboard instrument.
The brother of Bach was jealous of him and would hide light candles etc. Bach would have to copy under perhaps just a candle, something that made his eyesight suffer a lot when he became older.
Much of this information comes from the book of his second wife, The chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.
Is it not a good exercise for leaning to write music to copy a score?
Or for leaning to draw nice electronic diagrams or schematics copying one by hand?
Like when we learn character copying at school for our first or second language.
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