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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2008-11-16 17:55
From the linear notes of the recent release of Andreas Staier's Schumann album - Tribute to Bach:
"1836 - One evening I went to the Leipzig cemetry to seek the resting place of a great man: I searched for hours, all over the place - but found no 'J.S. Bach'. And when I asked the gravedigger about it, he shook his head over the obscurity of the man, as if to say: there were many Bachs. On the way home, I said to myself: 'How poetic are the workings of chance! Lest we think of ephemeral dust, lest any image of the death that is our common fate should occur to us, chance has dispersed his ashes to the four winds, and so I will forever think of him sitting upright at his organ, in his finest array, with his works booming away below him, the congregation looking piously up, and perhaps also the angels looking down.'
Inspired to play more Bach on oboe! Check out on Edition Musicales Alphonse Leduc, A. Caillieret's Quinze Etudes for oboe d' apres les sonates pour violin seul de J.S. Bach. Available at June Emerson's the last time i checked. Wonderful!!!
Howard
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A beautiful quotation from Schumann |
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HautboisJJ |
2008-11-16 17:55 |
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jhoyla |
2008-11-16 19:33 |
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oboemoboe |
2008-11-17 12:35 |
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