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Since you said that you answered correctly I almost don't dare adding or questioning anything. Almost. You are certainly right that Bach wasn't much more well-known while he was still alive than afterwards. But "his popularity has always been more or less the same"? I certainly don't think he was as well-known in the 18th and 19th century as today! Yes, many great composers knew about him and learned from his pieces. But they had to look for them in order to study them, it wasn't just thrown at them. Certainly Mozart learned lots from Bach, but how long did it take until he had even discovered him? Surely, today a child that is musically trained as Mozart was would know of Bach as one of the first composers! Sure, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin knew of Bach and admired him, but the average person on the street had no clue. Today almost everyone in Europe and America has heard once or twice of Bach, or even heard a piece by him once. Him having influenced generations of composers says nothing about his "popularity".
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