Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variationen

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In his compositions Johann Sebastian Bach aspired to the ideal of perfection rather than beauty. This can be seen clearly throughout his entire oeuvre. He saw beauty as the allure of perfection, as the dependence of the parts on an ideal mathematical relationship, on order and harmony. The entire work, the complete series of variations is manifested number, in which the individual movements never step outside the Center, the One, for the power of the One is present in every movement. Thus, the bass that is the foundation of the work and the harmonic progression that is connected with it does not oppose the Many, but creates it. In order to make the One comprehensible and to relay his knowledge of it, Bach needed to elucidate the significance of the One in full. That is what accounts for the 32 „Fundamental-Noten” (Bach’s own term) in the 32 measure of the opening Aria and the fact that the entire composition, with the repetition of the Aria, is made up of 32 independent movements. Every movement in the work as a whole is where it belongs according to its own value and for this reason it unfolds as it should, thereby demonstrating that everything is true in the Unity. In Bach’s work it is not the virtually inexhaustible variety of the variation series, not the forms themselves, but the meaning that shines through the forms, the light that comes from within that is so staggering.