And may He bless you and all the People of Germany, my home for three beautiful, happy years.
The music of J. S. Bach is transfigurative.
There is a place where beauty, joy, love, and truth are all the same thing. Many things can take us there--a beautiful sunset, the laughter of children, a flower, the kiss of the beloved--many things. The music of J. S. Bach can take us there.
That place is here and now. We are never away from it; only our awareness of it varies.
Thank you so very much for your kind, heart-warming words.
Yes, Bach really is the beginning and the end of all music, as Max Reger (1873-1916) so famously said 🙂 Or at least to many people, including myself 🙂
The work of his that I would also love to hear one day is BWV 244 a (Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt) the cantata of mourning for Bach‘s late friend and employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. But there have been attempts of reconstructing it, though I have not yet heard them.
Somehow, this music is fitting for my own situation, since an elderly aunt of mine has just passed on, and, a cousin of mine is dying of cancer, at the ripe old age of 37 😞 We are all praying for a miracle…
However, I would like to wish you, dear Savage Beast, and your dear ones a wonderful Christmas time and a Happy New Year! 🎄🍾