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I feel that I learned so much and I feel I spent weeks in the presence of a great book but these feelings are limited by my own lack of musical understanding.

Gardner’s work (biography interwoven with analysis) is full of musical terminology that I have no experience with myself. That’s my fault- not Gardner’s- but for the other non-musicians out there, consider yourself warned.

The best of this book, for me, was the moments of pure history, psychology, and theology. I feel, gratefully, to have a stronger appreciation for one of humankind’s best musicians and I have a list of philosophers, painters, and authors (all used by Gardner to better explain Bach) to look up and explore.