Johann Sebastian Bach - RLJSB
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Johann Sebastian Bach - RLJSB
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Painting - 22k Gold & Acrylic
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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest composers in the history of western music. His work has nourished the spiritual lives of millions, regardless of culture, language or creed. He has been called the "Fifth Evangelist," so effectively has he proclaimed the mystery of Christ in the language of art. A devout Lutheran, he represents the mystical side of Protestantism -- those who move beyond moral teachings and the printed word, to encounter the living Word, face-to-face.
Bach was born into a musical family, and was taught violin and organ as a child. He was orphaned at nine years old. By the age of 18, he had already begun his professional life. More than 1,000 of his musical compositions survive, including works in every musical form of his day, except opera. He wrote five sets of religious cantatas for every Sunday and feast day of the church year. He taught music, directed choirs, played the organ for services, and was a devoted father to his many children. He enjoyed the pleasures of the flesh, including a glass of good wine, and his tobacco pipe. When asked how he had achieved so much, his reply was, "I have had to be industrious."
Bach was not a self-consciously pious man, but his entire life was focused on the Divine Mystery. He began his manuscripts "in the Name of Jesus." He felt that "the aim and final reason... of all music... should be none else but the Glory of God and the recreation of the mind." Blessed with the vision of what he was meant to do, he followed his aims tenaciously and fought all interference. That sometimes led to difficulties with his employers, something many artists have had to endure. Two and a half centuries after his death, however, his music continues to bring souls to God -- living proof of the rightness of his path.
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