Quotes About Cantatas

Sherlock Holmes, to Mary Russell: It seemed to me that your friend's missing aunt took precedence over my history of contrapuntal significance in Bach's cantatas. Mary Russell: I stared at him. It was one of the sweetest things he'd ever said.

We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the more dramatic of his church cantatas and Passions.

she told him she'd grown up in a household where music was the religion and composers were its saints. Cantatas were chapels. Pavanes were prayer. Fugues were the firmament and God existed in every note.