What did Johann Sebastian Bach write at the beginning of his compositions?
Many (if not all) of Bach’s compositions were prefaced by a statement reflecting his devotion to the God in whom he invested faith. I don’t know the German text, but a comparable English translation would be “To God be the glory”. Besides that, many of the music collections he composed began with a musical format called “Prelude”; among these are his famous French Suites and English Suites for keyboard instruments. Bach also prefaced many “fugues”, another famous music format, for solo string instruments, keyboards, as well as vocal and instrumental groups, with “preludes”. But Bach was not unlike many composers of his day, or of composers of prior or subsequent eras of music (even up to our time), in using the “prelude” to introduce many of his famous compositions.
