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Quotes of the Day for 21 March 2005 - Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach, Germany on this day in 1685. He was the youngest of eight children in a musical family, and spent his entire life performing and creating Music in Germany. It seems he got pretty good at it.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great composers never sacrificed form to expression. As high as their expression may soar, their musical form remains supreme and all-efficient.
     - Camille Saint-Saens, 1835 - 1921

Study Bach: there you will find everything.
     - Johannes Brahms, 1833 - 1897

To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
     - Pablo Casals, 1876 - 1973

O you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you.
     - Giuseppe Verdi, 1813 - 1901

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.
     - Aaron Copland, 1900 - 1990

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
     - William F. Buckley

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