Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column considers the great composer’s contributions to Western art and the inspiration it provides centuries later.
Three hundred years ago on March 21, Johann Sebastian Bach was born. The event is as though God had decided to clear his throat to remind the world of his existence. That existence had been greatly dishonored by the terrible Thirty Years’ War that had ended only a generation before Bach’s birth, a war whose reverberations we still experience, even as the ayatollah continues to dishonor the Moslem creed he misunderstands himself to incarnate.
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