Notes on Bach's life.

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…d the Musical Offspring to "a Monarch whose greatness and power, as in all the sciences of war and peace, so especially in music, everyone must admire and revere" Nƒnlabors of life time made Bach blind NƒnHowever, he finished his final task, the revising of 18 chorale preludes doe the organ the dying composer dictated to a son-in-law the last of these, Before Thy Throne, My God, I Stand.