today’s thought is that bach’s art of fugue was unfinished at his death, but was a massive bomb to future generations of musicians and even some philosophers. to me, one of its most interesting aspects, is that like many of his greatest works it was conceieved and executed in his spare time. he was an essential middle class individual, with a job and a wife and a family to support, but although his profession allowed him certain lattitude, he carved out enough time from his limited spare time (he had thirteen children, for christ’s sake), to produce works, lacking patronage or even any real hope of remuneration, but just because that was what he did. and one of those works has the ability to make you think about things in a new way, maybe 250 years later. isn’t that what its all about? God bless him for that, if nothing else.