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Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived!

Get a copy of Bach's B minor mass and listen to the Crucifixus. He paints a perfect picture of the crucifixion with this music - heart beat in the background, scratching of the cross on the cobblestones and finally relaxing in a hopeful major chord when the heart beat stops.

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Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived!

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Michael says:

Bach is great!

Jimmy says:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to influence, no single composer has wielded such a weighty sword as has Johann Sebastian Bach. A Young Mozart, upon hearing a Bach motet for the first time, exclaimed: "Now there is music from which a man can learn something." It is recorded that the young composer spread out reams of Bach in earnest study. No wonder Beethoven exclaimed "Not Bach (=brook), but Meer (=ocean) should be his name!"

_Joan_ says:

Bach is absolutely my favorite, both his instrumental music and the choral music are incredible.

Mike says:

Beethoven exclaimed "Not Bach, but Meer should be his name!"
which means ocean

Jan Snauwaert says:

I think there is no doubt about it: Bach is the greatest. It is almost unconceivable that he was a "mere" human

Nuker says:

Undoubtedly, yes. His contrapuntual skills have not been rivaled by any other composer.

Jan Snauwaert says:

No question about that! Even if it can't be proven, it is not less certain that Bach was the greatest of them all.

GeneHall says:

Oh Yeah!

No way, Monkeybrain!

ssssssssssss says:

blub

oskar says:

no Beethoven is the greatest

 

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