Bach against Modernity Quotes

“My suspicion is that many of us long for a great musical figure like Bach to have been a great thinker who conveys immortal thoughts on the human condition that are personal, modern, and individual to him. But as far as I can tell from the historical evidence, Bach’s (essentially orthodox Lutheran) world- and life views were suprapersonal, premodern, and not individual to him.”
― Michael Marissen, Bach against Modernity