“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

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