“Bach ... needed no audience. He wrote for himself alone.”
So an astonished Mozart tells Baron Gottfried van Swieten after being introduced to “The Art of Fugue.”
J.S. Bach and some of his sons. Artist and date of this family portrait are unknown. Public Domain
Andrew Benson Brown
Author
Andrew Benson Brown is the Outreach Director for the Society of Classical Poets and the author of “Legends of Liberty,” an epic poem about the American Revolution.
