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>The cult around Germans in classical has little basis outside of 19th century nationalist propaganda and Schenkerian autofellatio.
Ironically, this post does exactly what it accuses "the cult around Germans" of doing: projecting some weird, insecure obsession with nationality onto music. It reeks of resentment, likely in reaction to the fact that Germans created musicology and built a canon around their composers; as did many nations in the 19th century, including Italy. The difference is, the German canon happened to be so rich and influential, that it gradually absorbed the best from other traditions too, by merit of course.
>None of the German composers do anything better than the Italians they were imitating, quite often they make it worse.
The idea that, for example, Frescobaldi or early Italians represent some unreachable peak of keyboard music, while Bach and Handel merely "imitated and worsened" them, is hilariously uncultured; straight up just tryhard contrarianism.
