In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach,
then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher
and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit
the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more than 250
miles. This journey and its destination were a pivotal point in the
life of arguably the greatest composer the world has yet seen.
Lubeck was Bach's moment, when a young teacher with a reputation
for intolerance of his pupils' failings began his journey to become
the master of the Baroque. More than three hundred years later, the
writer Horatio Clare set off to recreate this walk, following in
Bach's footsteps. The result of this journey is Something of his
Art, an imaginative evocation of what the twenty-year-old composer
would have seen and felt on his long journey is a sustained
visualisation of the landscape, light and wildlife of early
eighteenth century northern Germany. Bach becomes Clare's walking
companion, a vestigial but real presence, as he acutely observes
the season and places he passes through.
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