„BACH ist Anfang und Ende aller Musik.“

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 3. Akt / Lord Illingworth
Original engl.: "When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Vom Ich als Princip der Philosophie oder über das Unbedingte im menschlichen Wissen, § 6, bei zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009264426

"Jenseits der Zeit", Film von Bruno Monsaingeon, arte, 13. Mai 2005
My love to Bach made me become a musician. All what I was interested in, was impressed by him. It is hardly imaginable, that the greatest musician of history, whose work still today attracts us magnetically and who was criterion for the musician art of the last two centuries, did not accomplish any impression, with the musicians and the audience of his time, ...Bach was the greatest nonconformist of the history of music.
He writes tonal, but without excess of colors. He uses an endless palette of shades of grey. ...The piece and the devotion of the last fugue are overwhelming. He modulates never in the conventional sense, but lets the impression of an expanding universe come into being.

zitiert in: Thomas von Aquin, De Ente et Essentia. Über das Seiende und das Wesen. Lateinisch- Deutsch. Herder, 2007. ISBN 9783451286896. S. 42.
Original lat.: "Quia parvus error in principio magnus est in fine."
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