Arthur Machen
Around 1890 Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, "The Great God Pan". It was published in 1894 by John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time. Machen's story was widely denounced for its sexual and horrific content and consequently sold well, going into a second edition.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Felix Mendelssohn significantly contributed to the renewed interest in Bach's work with his 1829 Berlin performance of the "St Matthew Passion", instrumental in setting off what has been called the Bach Revival. The "St John Passion" saw its 19th-century premiere in 1833, and the first performance of the "Mass in B minor" followed in 1844. Besides these and other public performances and an increased coverage on the composer and his compositions in printed media, the 1830s and '40s also saw the first publication of more vocal works by Bach: six cantatas, the "St Matthew Passion", and the "Mass in B minor". A series of organ compositions saw their first publication in 1833. Chopin started composing his 24 Preludes, Op. 28, inspired by the "Well-Tempered Clavier", in 1835, and Schumann published his "Sechs Fugen über den Namen B-A-C-H" in 1845. Bach's music was transcribed and arranged to suit contemporary tastes and performance practice by composers such as Carl Friedrich Zelter, Robert Franz, and Franz Liszt, or combined with new music such as the melody line of Charles Gounod's Ave Maria. Brahms, Bruckner, and Wagner were among the composers who promoted Bach's music or wrote glowingly about it.