Enlightenment

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685–1750

Cantor at Leipzig

He wrote at the top of manuscripts Soli Deo gloria, to the glory of God alone, and meant the craft as part of the offering. The sentence on the aim of music is the prose version of that heading.

In the canon

  1. The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.A note in his musical instruction

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