Polyphony: Bach and the Lament of Life
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After his mother's death, Kennicott determined to start studying Bach's greatest and most complex work, the Goldberg Variations, hoping to explore the meaning of music and even the meaning of life. The mother was depressed all her life and was sharp, mean and even hysterical towards her children. However, after death comes, looking back on her life, was she ever truly understood by her family? The process of practicing the "Goldberg Variations" is full of hardships. It challenges the performer's self-confidence with extremely high difficulty, and at the same time emotionally forces people to face the deepest, most private and lonely self of consciousness. Kennicott wrote this book "Polyphony" about his experience of coping with grief and practicing music, constantly exploring and trying to answer two crucial questions: How does one know a piece of music? How do you know someone well?
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