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Table Talk (Bach had at least one copy)
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17th century engraving of Eisenach

Wiki: The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, with parts of Germany reporting population declines of over 50%

This author studied under Nadia Boulanger!
(1967). Her way of teaching harmony was founded on Bach’s chorales, which she regarded as models of how to establish a beautiful polyphony – with each voice being accorded equal importance, while still playing a different role in the four-way conversation, now advancing, now, retreating: contrapuntally conceived harmony, in other words.

Strong, too, is the sense of a mirror being held up to the man who created this music in the first place, one that vividly reflects his complex and rugged personality, his urge to communicate, and share his view of the world with his listeners, and his unique capacity for bringing boundless invention, intelligence, wit and humanity to the process of composition.