A book dedicated to the greatest musician of all time. "I never knew Johann Sebastian Bach. I couldn't have, I lived long before his birth. But what can I say? I somehow feel responsible for his existence and the mark he left on the great flowery field of humanity. Sebastian bears my last name; he is the son of my son's son's son. In our language, Bach means "stream." And from father to son, we are just like the waves of the same stream, chasing each other on the surface: like the waves, we are united in a single current despite the time that separates us, like the waves, we find in the valley the movement that began upstream..."