Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach, the Fugue

"The form in which polyphonic skill reaches its highest possibilities is the Fugue."
(location 600, Kindle Edition)

"Schumann says that 'Music owes to Bach what a religion owes to its founder'; and it is true that a knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom."
(location 702, Kindle Edition)

"Furthermore, in Bach, we feel the force of a great character even more than the artistic skill with which the personality is revealed. In this respect Bach in music is quite on a par with Shakespeare in literature and Michael Angelo in plastic art."
(location 718, Kindle Edition)

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