21 March 2021

Happy Birthday, Bach

Ihle, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1720


Johann Sebastian Bach was born on this day in 1685.

[Bach} was first and last an architect, a constructor of sound, and what makes him so inestimably valuable to us is that he was beyond a doubt the greatest architect of sound who ever lived.

Glenn Gould

Gould performs the Contrapunctus I-IV from The Art of Fugue ...

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