My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly…
— Johann Sebastian Bach Early Modern

Baroque composer

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Letter to Georg Erdmann, on his post as Cantor of Leipzig

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1732

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Controversial

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