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Bach's Bible: The Pencil Notes That Show Why He Signed Every Score to God's Glory

A pastor visiting his cousin in a Michigan farmhouse in 1934 noticed a signature on the title page of an old German Bible. It was Johann Sebastian Bach's, and the notes in its margins say what he thought music was for.

YESHVA EditorialOctober 3, 20267 min readEditor: Luciano Olguin

Image: J. S. Bach · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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