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Feb 02, 2017HowardWilliams rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
To my mind the book was less about music and more about the tensions between the early Lutherans, their modern descendants and Jews. Whilst I was aware of some of the anti-Jew prose in the St John Passion I was not aware that such sentiments were to be found in the cantatas. I found the descriptions of Jews in Prussia, having to protect themselves by conversion, disturbing. Modern parallels spring to mind.....