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Johann Sebastian Bach, the greatest composer of Western music, explored in his cantatas the manifestations of the human condition.The relationship of oneself to others, and of money to morality, are only a few of these manifestations which are considered in the cantatas for Trinity... Read Full Overview

In his more than 200 cantatas Bach interprets the human condition through musical assertion and examination of the relevance of the gospels and epistles of the Christian Bible. Every cantata is discussed in my six book series On the Cantatas of J.S. Bach.

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