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Music by J.S. Bach

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The Story of the Brandenburg Concertos
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   Never before has music composed by man moved away from the Earth at such a fantastic distance. The Voyager space probe has already left the solar system.
 
     As a message to extraterrestrial civilizations, he took into space a golden plate, on which, among the most significant information about the people of the planet Earth, the first part of the Second Brandenburg Concerto by Bach was recorded.

     
 Before escaping into space, the score lay for 100 years in the cramped library cabinet of the Margrave of Brandenburg.
   
  No, Christian Ludwig was a big fan of Bach's work. It was he who expressed a desire to receive as a gift a piece of music by the composer in the concert genre.
   
Bach set to work with enthusiasm. The composer sent an opus of six concertos grosso to the margrave on March 24, 1721.
       
  Christian Ludwig was grateful to Bach, but did not offer the position of the head of the orchestra, which the composer had counted on so much. The concerts weren't even performed.

       
The Six Brandenburg Concertos are a priceless, incredible treasure created by a great genius and
AN OWNERSHIP OF THE UNIVERSE

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