Subject to Death & Life
Paul Celan’s Todesfuge, J. S. Bach & the Passion of Christ
by Timothy A. Smith
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Timothy A. Smith is a professor of music theory at Northern Arizona University and the author of the Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach website. He lives with his wife and the youngest of their three daughters in Flagstaff, where they are members of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany.
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