The Last Works of Bach Are Meaningful

Bach is so committed to glorifying god, but he does it in a way that i think people don't realize is sort of perverse. He was so misunderstood, even in his own time, by his parishioners and his children. So the last works of bach are meaningful in part because they are they have so much of bach's disappointment and anger built into them. Some of the most com x pieces of western music are ar bas last pieces, is the art of the fugue and a musical offering. Both of those pieces involve his son, karl philip emmanuel. The art fugue is this massive compendium that boch was working on when he died

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