Phoebus Air -Celebrating Bach's Birthday Today!

Apollo and Hyacinth 

(With longing I press your tender cheeks, Lovely, beautiful Hyacinth. And I like to kiss your eyes, Because they are my morning stars And the sun of my soul.)

 Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 – 28 July 1750)

Alexander Ivanov
Apollo, Hyacinth and Cyparissus singing and playing.

(1831—1834)