Where There Is Devotional Music God

Bach wrote this annotation in his personal copy of the Abraham Calov Bible Commentary, a Lutheran study Bible he owned and marked extensively. The annotation is among several Bach made throughout the three-volume set, which he acquired around 1733. Scholars discovered the annotated Bible in the United States in 1934; its marginal notes offer rare direct evidence of Bach's theological convictions and his understanding of the relationship between music and worship.