/lit/ - Literature

What is a good biography on the greatest composer ever, J.S. Bach? I desire to know the man who created the most transcendent and beautiful music in all of history.

Who is the Bach of literature?

Best book on music theory?

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>mogs all religious writing and theology

>>20971012
You're not culturemaxxing if you're spending your time with only literature.

Who is the Bach of Literature?
Who is the Beethoven of Literature?
Who is the Palestrina of Literature?
Who is the Debussy of Literature?
Who is the Prokofiev of Literature?
Who is the Rautavaara of Literature?

>>20492130
>>20492159
Are you aware of just how many children this Christian chad had?

>Fugue

What is it that allows great writers, artists, men in general to be so productive with their work? I know no one in my life that comes even close to the productivity of these men and I feel like there is some secret they are keeping from us.

who is the Johann Sebastian Bach of literature

If materialism is true what explains music? I've never heard a good answer to this. The worst answer is something about humans wanting to solve patterns which make no sense.

I want to read more but I'm addicted to listening to (classical) music. I can go tens of hours of listening to it, but that leaves me with literally no concentration for anything else. I feel like my brain is stunted. What do I do? Please /lit/ you're my only hope.

>>19678499
>Germany's greatest contribution to the world
Umm, try again sweety.

Are there any essays or aphorisms or something of the sort written by a composer? All I can find are letters.

Any books about going full ascetic and making the God you worship Beauty? To throw away all human desires, envy, anger, lust, politics, relationships, ego, drugs and only to focus on aesthetic contemplation? Not only in terms of Art but Beauty in a mountain or lake.

Why are there so no geniuses in the arts like they were in the past? Surely there are people with the IQ and Ability of Shakespeare or Mozart amongst us yet they don't create anything? What changed?

>>19413680
> Has 20 children

Yes, very often that is the case.

plebs

pretty new to classical, so what is it exactly that makes bach so good to this board?

>>18335694
Attaching the picture might have been a good move.

Who is his literary equivalent?

>>17806353
Seiner Tod bleibet meine Freude