Bach's music

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Can't stand Mozart, too gimmicky. He was the fluff pop music of his time.

J.S. Bach is the best composer ever! All emotions can be found in his music but not all his music is emotional.
I could write a book about what his music meant and means to me...

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 7:3-5 (KJV)

cool man

Philistine.

Yes, and both considered manic depressive. That's what I am. They were able to focus their gifts on one specific talent though which I think is difficult for some manic depressives to do. I find that I'm all over the place more often than not. I love both Bach and Hendrix.

Nevermind, I got bach mixed with mozart. mozart was bipolar. sorry

Bach is a personal fav for me, :)

What about Chopin and Puccini!!!

vivaldi is drivel, too chintzy

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Beethoven was a talentless, drug-riddled hack who choked to death on his own puke?

I doubt you have a PhD. If by some chance you do, it's not in any field relevant to a discussion of Bach. Because if you DID have the education you claim, you would know how absolutely absurd the rest of your post is.

Bach's music does not defy explanation; it invites it, and it never fails to be time well spent. The academic nature of Bach revealed itself in the nature of his music. As a teacher (not only of others but also himself---yes, Bach was self-taught!), his compositions were encyclopedic in scope and nearly always didactic in nature. What he didn't have any clue about was that his music would have become so inspirational AND educational to so many for so long.

He was not a musical revolutionary; he was not a pioneer. Instead, he was the summation and culmination of everything that came before him; he simply took what others had already done and did it to the highest level. But there's no mystical, magical voodoo about it.

This does not diminish or detract from his greatness in any way...but to say that he did things that nobody else has been able to do it just silly, and reeks of someone discussing a subject they know nothing about.

"Widerstehe doch der Sünde,
Sonst ergreifet dich ihr Gift.

Laß dich nicht den Satan blenden;
Denn die Gottes Ehre schänden,
Trifft ein Fluch, der tödlich ist

Translation:

Pray resist sin,
lest its poison seize you.

Don't let Satan blind you;
for those who defile God's honor
will incur a curse that is deadly."

Bach's canons and fuques were riddles. He was a mathmetician. He sent his, unfinished works to others, even kings, to complete for him.

I'ts good he's dead because he was not opposed to sex with dogs.

Classical music is probably the only thing left in this world that is not defilled by the illuminatti.