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Even as I passionately argued against his views, this musician insisted that he was right in what he said because he truly "loved" and "revered" Bach and Mozart, and felt that he was "protecting" their authentic values. He believed that we must leave no stone unturned in analyzing their lives, and that every scrap of paper - a fragment tossed out into the trash, or a private note that was only meant for the recipient's eyes - was important in preserving and understanding the genius of their art, BUY Coreg ONLINE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION. But by insisting that Bach could only be played by Germans, he inadvertently limits the Bach that he loves so much to being an artist of only one country, when his artistic legacy belongs to a perspective and history much larger and greater than that. I was also left thinking about what Mozart would say if he knew people were looking at his shoes to figure out how to interpret his music...it seems, in many ways, that the spirit of Max Brod continues to live on.

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