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Musikedition Dr. Heinz Anderle

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One of the noblest and most sublime sacred compositions of all times
available in the first authentic score edition:
On July 11, 1791, François-Marie Arouet Voltaire's ashes
were transferred in a solemn funeral procession to the Panthéon.
The music appropriate to the memory of this unshakable
free spirit and fighter for religious tolerance was commissioned
to the musical and poetic torchbearers of the French Revolution:

He was consumed by tuberculosis at the age of 24
and left behind only his music as his legacy.
He was France's greatest musical genius and hope,
committed to the ideas and ideals of the Revolution, and to
excellence in form, progress in harmony, and intensity in expression:

His musical career could not have been more normal and typical,
but then the sunrise of a new era
set both his genius and his energy afire
for the nation that welcomed him as its citoyen.
It was his first and last official and ecclesiastical duty
for his deceased predecessor at the Strasbourg cathedral
composed in the key of hope and consolation :

2000 was (Johann Sebastian) Bach's year, celebrated
by scholars and music lovers around the world.
But the tree of the Bach family bore another four musical members, J. S. Bach's sons,
building the base of and the bridge to a new classical style and era.
The "forte e piano" series of music for the fortepiano
proudly presents three clavier concertos by a son of J. S. Bach
in first editions:

As a militant humanist and agnostic deist, I see the time has come for the justified war and ultimate triumph of civilization over barbarianism, of humanism over cruelty, of enlightenment over darkness, and of freedom, human rights and dignity against fanaticism, ignorance, superstition and rapture.

The American and the French Revolution are the base of modern civilization. The American founding fathers were the first to write down human and civil rights. The French philosophers gave these ideas the philosophical justification and declared human rights universal, and this means irrespective of gender, skin color, or religion. Democracy, pluralism, civil liberty, individual freedom, and equality of rights, chances and dignity was their ultimate goal we still have to work hard for - and defend.

The separation of science and religion in the age of renaissance and of state and church in the age of enlightenment has made the North American and European civilization the most advanced in the world. By our success and our knowledge we have the responsibility to work for liberty, justice, peace, and progress all around our planet. Poverty as the greatest threat to human dignity has to be relieved not only by material assistance but most effectively by education provided as the key to freedom and self-determination. However, the current generation of terrorists mostly comes from the small affluent and educated class in despotic middle-eastern countries. A paranoid inferiority complex and a religious irrational self-incapacitation have bred a danger to humankind believed to have disappeared with the defeat of European fascism.

In a modern civilized world there is definitely no place for religious intolerance, extremism, and violence. The zealots of hatred, violence and cowardice and their breeding-grounds have to be eliminated by all appropriate means and with the most extreme resolve, and let us hope that there will be sufficient courage to do so.

Let us, the civilized world, smoke out this green pleague of islamic fundamentalism and throw it into the cesspit of history to the other plagues in purple (catholic intolerance), brown (fascist romanticism), and red (communist delusion), because human rights and dignity originate from humanism and civilization, and not from deceit and superstition where the individual human doesn't count.

"The tree of liberty can only grow soaked with the tyrant's blood."

(Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, member of the French National Convention, 1793)

Last update: October 26, 2001
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