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Bach
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... and this man, the greatest musical poet and the greatest musical rhetorician that has ever existed, and probably that ever will exist, was a German. Be proud of him, oh Fatherland, be proud of him, but also be worthy of him!
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Bach was behind the times, Beethoven was ahead of them, and yet both were the greatest of composers. Modernism and conservatism are irrelevant. What matters is to be true to oneself.
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