Bach’s Motets

Heaven is listening to J. S. Bach’s motets on a cold, sunny winter day. Why are they so emotionally moving?

Did you know that the Bach’s copy of his two volume Bible commentary by Lutheran theologian Abraham Calov was discovered in the 50s in a barn in Minnesota? In it he marked the texts for his cantatas. Of course, now it’s impossible to see them, because they’re kept in innermost archives of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis.

Luckily, this isn’t a problem with Bach’s music, which is accessible even to the most tone deaf of humanity. Who can listen to Bach and not think of God?