The Gift of Music

BACH GAVE US GOD'S WORD

MOZART GAVE US GOD'S LAUGHTER

BEETHOVEN GAVE US GOD'S FIRE

GOD GAVE US MUSIC

THAT WE MIGHT PRAY WITHOUT WORDS

~From a German opera house~

"God is ever before my eyes. I realize His omnipotence and I fear His anger, but I also recognize His love, His compassion and His tenderness toward His creatures. He will never forsake His own. If it is according to His will, so let it be according to mine. Thus all will be well, and I must be happy and contented." (Mozart's letter to his father in 1777:)

Mozart's Mass in C minor, though never completed, is generally held with Bach’s B Minor Mass and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis as one of the greatest settings of the Ordinary ever composed. (The Bach Choir of Bethlehem)

Sample some of the music in Passion: The Sacred Music of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart .

(A word of acknowledgement and thanks to my voice teacher Mila who owns a framed print of the above poem)