When the biologist Lewis Thomas was asked what message he thought mankind should take to other civilizations in space, he replied: “I would send plete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.” But that would be boasting.
“There is no music of greater emotional depth than this, but it is of the highest order. Music can be plex and pletely intriguing and overwhelming emotionally.”
“If there had been no Bach, it probably would have been no further history of music as we know it. There would not have been Mozart as we know him, there would not have been Beethoven as we know him, there would not have been romantic era as we know it. Every period of music has been informed to some extent by the example of Bach.”
“I can't imagine a world where you wouldn't play Bach, he's just too important.”
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750, he was mourned more as anist and keyboard player than as poser, and for almost 100 years after his death, his work was known mainly to connoisseurs and professional musicians. Yet today, the resonant power of his work and the depth of his influence is regarded as one of the greatest achievements in the history of music.
Bach believed that the aim and final reason of music should be none else but the glory of God and the recreation of the mind. His sacred and secular music is seen as both the culmination of the baroque era and the beginning of the modern age
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