In the beginning was the Word

 

"Upon hearing the young Mendelssohn play Bach fugues, Goethe declared that it seemed to him as if he had witnessed God at the creation of the world."  — Friedrich Rittelmeyer

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Source: Letters on John's Gospel, p. 218