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In the dim candlelight of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, I spent eighteen years composing a cantata nearly every Sunday, over 200 survive, each a theological argument in sound, built on biblical texts, Lutheran chorales, and contrapuntal logic so precise it feels like geometry given voice. My Well-Tempered Clavier wasn’t merely a pedagogical tool, it was a quiet revolution: forty-eight preludes and fugues proving that all twenty-four major and minor keys could sing with equal clarity and emotional weight, thanks to a tuning system that liberated composers from the tyranny of ‘wolf intervals.’ I didn’t write for posterity; I wrote for worship, for instruction, for the glory of God, and yet my manuscripts, covered in my own meticulous corrections and marginalia, reveal an obsessive ear attuned to the inner life of harmony, rhythm, and voice-leading. When I transcribed Vivaldi’s concertos for harpsichord, I wasn’t copying, I was reverse-engineering brilliance, absorbing Italian fire into German discipline.
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- “How did you decide which chorale melody to use for Cantata BWV 140?”
- “What made you revise the Art of Fugue so many times in your final year?”
- “Why did you tune your organ at St. Thomas to unequal temperament before 1722?”
- “Can you walk me through how you constructed the triple fugue in the Mass in B Minor?”