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I’m subbing for a friend of mine at a Catholic church in the Bronx next month.  I might play this as the prelude, it’s such a nice piece.

Did you know that Bach wasn’t much of a success in his lifetime?  It was years later (about 200 years later) that other composers found his work and decided he was the bee’s knees.  During his own lifetime he was an amateur musician working at churches in Germany.  That’s what they say in the history books, an amateur musician.

Bach probably played this invention at a church in Germany in the 1700s, and I’m going to play it at a church in the Bronx in the 2000s.  How about that?

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