Johann Sebastian Bach

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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is a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

is a composer in which the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

is to be studied. There you will find everything.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

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is no mere brook [Bach, meaning "brook" in German]. He's an ocean.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

is a composer on whose every page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

is a miracle of God, just as Beethoven is a prodigy of man.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

is a composer in which there is too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism. He stands at the threshold of modern European music, but he is always looking back toward the Middle Ages.

In Bach there is too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism. He stands at the threshold of modern European music, but he is always looking back toward the Middle Ages.

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