Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived!
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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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