Well, if anyone could make that happen, it's Rick...

Greatest interview never made😢

Mozart

Bach to the Future

​@@dad45ahe's overrated

He might not be available at this particular time

Rick needs to break out the Ouija board…….

reading out bwv live?

@@benjaminperez7328 that would be sick

I hope Rick will not meet Bach anytime soon.

Even a cursory study of Bach reveals his influences: Dieterich Buxtehude (German-Danish c.1638-1707): His German Oratorios and keyboard works were influences on Bach. Giovanni Palestrina (Italian c.1525-1594): Bach studied Palestrina's Missa sine nomine while writting his own Mass in B Arcangelo Corelli (Italian 1653-1713): Bach based an organ fugue (BWV 579) on Corelli's Opus 3 of 1689. Antonio Vivaldi (Italian 1678-1741): Vivaldi's concertos and arias influenced Bach's St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and his cantatas. Georg Phillip Telemann (German 1681-1767): Significant influence, and Bach's BWV 985 keyboard concerto is an arrangement of a Telemann violin concerto. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian 1710-1736): His Stabat Mater served as a basis for Bach's cantata Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden Girolamo Frescobaldi (Italian 1583-1643): Influenced Bach's early choral preludes for organ Tomaso Albinoni (Italian 1671-1751): Themes by Albinoni were used in Bach's BWV 950 and 951 fugues Georg Böhm (German 1661-1733): Bach knew Böhm personally, and may have been a student under him.

He is a summation of a movement as I think Matheny states here, but you’re half right in that he went so far far beyond anyone except perhaps Handel.

He had plenty of influences. We all do...there's nothing wrong with that. He was absolutely brilliant at what he did, and from what I've read, was absolutely humble as well.

By the Bach's days, after Tallis, Orlando di Lasso, Allegri, Palestrina, Buxstehude music ground was anything but bare

Exactly !!

My introduction to classical music was Loony Tunes, like all kids over fifty But, after a sixth grade field trip to hear the local chamber orchestra, I had a name for this type of music I have always loved it as well as death metal and stoner rock and disco

Thank you mom!!!

That's a terrific quote!😂

Long Version: “Many people remember that when in 1977 the Voyager spacecraft was launched, opinions were canvassed as to what artefacts would be most appropriate to leave in outer space as a signal of man's cultural achievements on earth. The American astronomer Carl Sagan proposed that 'if we are to convey something of what humans are about then music has to be a part of it.' To Sagan's request for suggestions, the eminent biologist Lewis Thomas answered, 'I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.' After a pause, he added, 'But that would be boasting.” ― John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

I have tried to read every book that Lewis Thomas, M.D. wrote, from The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail to his last two, an autobiography and The Fragile Species. In World War II, the Navy was concerned with the lack of knowledge about conditions in the South Pacific that people might encounter that they enlisted and commissioned from medical schools, teams to travel with the island hopping campaign. He was commissioned as an officer and wrote of his duty caring for laboratory animals to be used in potential testing. Maintaining several rabbits for months on end, only a single rabbit was used before the war ended. Rather than spoil the story, go to the public library and check out his book(s).

Send more Chuck Berry!

😂😂😂

My trombone teach once said: Begin every day with Bach.

@@jondhuse1549 Very wise! 😊

​@@jondhuse1549my trombone teacher, Rusty, always said "ASSUME THE POSITION"

I went to Marlboro College in Vermont, where Casals summered, and though he had already passed by the time I went there, he was very much alive in Vermont. Some days, I have heard (from very reliable sources) Casals played the entire Well Tempered Clavier!

@@annwaddell7321 cringe

Good choice.

But that kind of sounds like creating a narrative so that it fits facts which are only known today, and not necessarily at that time. How could Bach be of any inspiration and significance during the time he was overshadowed? Music could not help but develop independently of his contributions, which would have to be known first in order to exude an influence on anyone but his closest acquaintances.

I agree with you in almost all your points... But lets give credit where credit is due. Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all knew about Bach and had nothin but love for him. I have heard other music history types make the claim that Mozart had his musical approach to composition changed by listening to Bach. And to be clear. this is not an either or dichotomy. I like all of the above composers...

Better: JS Bach Born: 1685 (age 339 year old)

@@MrDanielqueijo if you leave your mark on history, part of you lives forever

Bach died in 2024?

@@johnnygoodman2003 nope, still alive 😁

@@vinceblanket1327 👍

"the pinnacle of human achievement ", I totally agree!

Great story!

I can relate completely.

whoop de doo

How wonderful! I totally agree.

It beggars belief that his work was so little appreciated & valued until Mendelssohn started championing it.

Mendelssohn's role in Bach's music "revival" is greatly (and wrongly) overestimated. Bach's music was valued and studied by many musicians before and after Mendelssohn, from Mozart and Beethoven to Schubert and Chopin. Until the end of the 18th century, his music was rarely played in public because the style had shifted away from the polyphonic style that Bach mastered, and music patrons were supporting other types of music. This trend started slowly shifting in the end of the 1700s. Bach's popularity significantly increased after Forkel published his (first) biography in 1802 - note that Mendelssohn was born in 1809. At this time, Bach's music (especially for solo keyboard and solo strings) started being played in public more frequently and his works started to be edited and re-published. Mendelssohn, like his father and teachers, was a yet another major admirer of Bach. Mendelssohn was responsible for the very successful public performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829 and, later, the first performance of the Mass in B minor in 1844. At the time, these events were rather unusual because "early" choral and orchestral music was not played in public. It is because of this that Mendelssohn (wrongly) gets the credit for "reviving" Bach. Mendelssohn's feat was "reviving" the tradition of performing large choral and orchestral works from older composers, instead of having these large production focusing only on contemporary music. However, Bach's music was already being "revived" before and during Mendelssohn's time. Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and many others were transcribing, arranging, composing, teaching and playing Bach's music or music inspired by Bach. So, saying that Mendelssohn is singlehandedly responsible for reviving Bach's music is an overstretch that ignores the major role that so many other musicians and scholars had.

@@ampac, Yes. Mozart and Beethoven (and many others all across Europe from London to Paris to St. Petersburg) were exposed to the music of Bach. Why? Because the many students he taught at Leipzig fanned out over Europe picking up musician jobs where they were available. In London, Mozart, as an 8 year old, being dragged all across Europe by his father, touring the same circuits that dog-and-pony acts traveled, seeking royal and aristocratic recognition (and money), encountered one of Bach's sons who lived there, and was called "The London Bach." Mozart's first symphony is actually an orchestration of that Bach son's piano sonata. So yeah, JS Bach was, through his *keyboard* music known far and wide. His orchestral and choral, music fell into near-oblivion *outside* the town of Leipzig where it was performed regularly, especially the sacred music at the Thomaskirk. Mendelssohn premiered the B Minor Mass. It had not been performed in Bach's lifetime and I know of no performance before that. That concert was so well-received that Mendelssohn launched a series of "historical" concerts including works by Mozart, Haydn, Handel, and Bach. Mendelssohn was the first person to have a career as what we would now call "a conductor." His Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra still is exists! Not only did he revive the orchestral music of Bach, he also launched the still-active interest in "old" music.

Your comment about Bach's music stimulating the "heart and brain" resonates well with my experience. But now that you've said it, so all I can do is to expand :) Intricate complexity and this deep, moving musicality, woven together into a beautiful whole. Many of his works are like that, maybe even most. I've found myself enjoying complexity in music for the sake of the "intellectual challenge" it presents. Which is fine, but it does tend to get boring when some "heart" is missing. Bach seems to be unique in my experience in that he routinely created music that stirs emotions, out of that complexity. The depth is always enough to explore in any direction. His music really does grow on you and doesn't seem to age.

Very pithy. I want to add that it's a trio: body-heart- and mind...The body fully present in deep corporal vibrations that connect with Mother Earth!

Did he really say that?? 😢 I can totally believe it.

Why don you say he was superior? Surely.we can be as great as he?

@@ludwigbutton I don't think so i guess he said "Kacke!", since he was a human. He loved to live and had many children i don't think he would have said something swollen, usually you say nothing when you die, simply because you can't.

@@leif1075 , ah, the ignorance of youth.

@@peterkrarup9222 I'd call it vanity.

What a perfect quote!

We're all hitchhiking to Bach ;)

@@paulkelcher824bach to the future 🚬😎

Or,... in the end we all end up with playing bach.

What a terrible, cliché quote.

Maybe Rick should interview him.

Exactly.

Love it... Bach is out of this world.

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Yeah but he’s interviewing boneheads to talk about Bach. He should be talking to people like Alma Deutscher or Jacob Collier

"Switched On Bach was a life changing experience for me..." I trust you went on to Jazz Guitar Bach

holy crap I was like 10 and bought that record

There are fates worse than yours!

Right now I'm high and this video is extra good.

Well said! Music really is the closest thing to magic humans have created. And Bach puts those inclined under a wonderful spell.

@@nahtesalinas1917Now put on headphones and listen to Glen Gould doing The Goldberg Variations

i have often thought the same thing

Pretentious? No! Accurate? Yes!

Just saw St Johns passion in Seattle last week, it had more than a few people having to dab their eyes during parts of it. I envy you so much. Hope you have a long and great career playing this great music and not just Bach. I think "how did he manage it?" He himself said it came from higher above and I believe that

@@fredgarv79 , true, but he also valued plodding. Just plain hard work. No temper tantrums and "look at me" moments. Just service. And work. In humility. That's what makes greatness. Curious George, here's to you! I am personally grateful for every single musician who continues working incredibly hard so that these gems are not lost to us forever.

​@@fredgarv79 plus he was a great family man.

What a treasure for you, and for those who are lucky to hear you in that setting. I am happy that BLM has not yet torn down the Bach statue.

@@paulwooton4390 , God forbid! Grief that gave me a turn to think about. They have torn down our statue of Rhodes in South Africa and much else, and however nasty Rhodes might actually have been, history is history, and desecration is desecration. They have also burned Irma Stern Art museum and much else.

I’m so sorry for what you went through. But I have an interesting story for you if it’s true. I read that Bach composed the Goldberg variations for a nobleman that couldn’t sleep. It was a commissioned work. And the nobleman’s pianist had to play for him to help him sleep. Often had to play all night. Bach named the Goldberg variations after the pianist. Because Bach had the sensitivity to feel his pain. Wow. I just got chills. ❤

Spare us the bullshit.

Bach's music has given me a lot of comfort over the years, too. I'm glad you were given the gift that's helped you make it to where you are now. ❤

I am so happy to learn that… to me Bach’s music - is divine. When you study scripture & practice daily; it heals you. Do I make sense?

Indeed

"splendid" - DA

Bravo,

Absolutely.

Rick is not a communist.

You lucky man, you.

Great. Beautiful music 🎶 may it transcend time

Was honored to be able to sing there with the Ohlone Chamber Choir many years ago.

Welcome to Germany. I hope all your expectations will be fulfilled.

Stephen, I am a third-generation devotee of the Bethlehem, PA Bach Festival -- my grandparents attended about ten times starting in the 1950s, and then my parents (with me, as a kid, on several occasions) in the 80s' and 90s -- and I got to go again last May with my mother. Sublime! The B Minor Mass is always amazing, of course (I thought last year's soloists were especially strong)...but it's the "little" concerts (chamber works, etc.) at various venues in the city across the weekend (including by very young artists) that delightfully show the range of Bach's music. Thank you!

It’s so true! When I was younger I thought Mozart was #1. That was until I discovered Bach 😊

My guitar instructor used to say to me “there isn’t really anything new in music since Bach”, and we were working on blue and rock.

How true that is! Today we know a bit more than 1000 pieces composed by him and however much I listen to that music, it never becomes boring.

So true, I was marveling today while listening to one of the violin concertos that I’ve known for years. Still gives chills!

I've been to Leipzig twice, and the second time it was to attend the Bachfest, they had a "Kantatenring", they played 30 cantatas in three days' time. What a wonderful experience. Leipzig is a beautiful, vibrant city, I wish I could visit more often!

That's one of the marvelous things about his music: it sounds good even when played through a PC speaker!

Yes, Curious - like a harpsichord, both are plucked.

Allemmande from the second solo violin partita. And I happen to be working on it now.

I saw a Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in 201. After a couple of sets with the band Bela ended the concert a few solo arrangements for the banjo one of which was Bach. That was and is the most memorable part of that night.

My thoughts exactly.

Please pay my respect to His magnificient for me since I live in Mexico.

I visited your city in 2022 and saw the Bach sights among other sights.

Sup bro

Grüße from Karl-Marx-City just down the road 😊

I am so envious of you living there. Greetings from Arkansas, USA.

If only he considered the singers a bit more. I sometimes need oxygen.

@@nextlifeonearth The 'runs' definitely aren't easy to sustain 😆 but the joy of singing his wonderful harmonies more than makes up for that.

I have been in choirs that always chose a Bach coral (yummy) and once we did the St Matthew Passion! It is all so beautiful. It feels so lovely to sing.

I'm a choral singer in the US, and I agree: pure genius. My music theory teacher required us to buy Bach's "371 Chorales" (for the Lutheran Church) as a textbook; sadly and significantly, it was long out of print, so we had to buy well-used copies online. I place Bach before all, including Mozart and Beethoven, and Haydn after Bach: We would not have Common Practice without Bach, and we would not have the Symphony without Haydn; the true pioneers often get less respect than those who follow in their wake. The local "classical" (writ large) radio station - which gets play in the UK, by the bye - has an annual vote for their listeners' choices for the best pieces. The top twenty is invariably dominated by Beethoven; even Mozart only appears a few times. Bach typically does not appear once in the top thirty or so.

@@annwaddell7321 I agree St Matthew and St John Passions are both wonderful to sing. The opening chorus to St John is exquisite.

Yes....musical genius is still poorly understood by neurologists, etc....

ASberger's syndrome.....

@@stevengill1736 plus God

I did exactly the same some time ago. Sat by the tomb's side just crying. I just had conducted cantata BWV 4 and BWV 131 in the South of France in a small Chapel from 13. century. And now I just HAD to come to Mühlhausen and Leipzig to thank for that lifetime gifts a little closer.

I envy you and your experience. Me? (if there were no others watching) I would have moist, slightly runny eye, of gratitude to God for giving us His servant Bach.

How can that be true? I want to be as great as Bach and could never admit I'm not and don't see why I can't be.

@@leif1075 Then make your art great

In the Hairstyle Metheny comes close 😅

🤷🏻

​@@leif1075it's impossible to compose another toccata and fugue as complex and interesting and captivating

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 is one of his most metal pieces. After completing playing it, the harpsichord needs to be overhauled, because it's shredded.

It's entirely true.

Bach and roll!

(Dregs fan since the 70s here) every time I hear Bach's Prelude in C Minor from WTC 1 for the last few years, I imagine what it sounds like on distorted guitar (it's my nomination for Bach's most metal piece). Morse is right - I need to add the double kick drums in my imagination (maybe with Sitti from VoB doing the kicking).

Yngwie went ahead and did it too 😅

I've been listening to my Bream collection a lot recently. I'm a bit hung up on the Spaniards - in a good way - but when I hear Bach's Lute Suite in E minor, I am left to wonder. Was he channeling the Spanish sound there? I think he was, I think he did.

I think you mean as an amazing classical guitarists.

Us classical guitarists have so much to thank Bach for - even though he never wrote a single note for the instrument - due to his lute suites as well as the violin and keyboard pieces which work so well in transcription. Fugues, Gavottes, Preludes, Gigues, Allemandes - what a rich repertoire we are heirs to!

Which is your favorite? I like 1,2, and 4 the best. His recorder parts are completely delightful! I also love how in the first concerto, there is this unison oboe part in the low range. I’ve always wanted to play the concertos, but I only played them by myself.

Excellent start for your son. Smart dad. Thank you..

Growing up, my mom would listen to mostly baroque and classical music. I remember finding her music boring, even though I did enjoy some of the Mozart and Vivaldi. But I remember I found Bach weird, and never really enjoyed it (the toccata and fugue was an exception). Only much later did I rediscover Bach, and for some reason, I could hear the beauty now, and I couldn’t get enough of it. Still my favorite composer by far. TLDR, I think Bach’s music is something that can’t be ‘indoctrinated’ but one has to discover it in his own path in life.

Agree. You’re recognise greatness. I’m totally awed by Bach.

Indeed!

Rochester is honoring rick at the Roc music hall of fame. Others include Steve gadd, Chuck mangione, Lou graham

I borrowed the B. Concertos on cassette from a library on a military base long ago and that was an eye-opener.

That was my intro to Bach as well.

Public libraries are such incredibly valuable resources; it's political crime that any government should allow them to disappear.

Schubert, Liszt and Beethoven

Well Amadeus was no slouch himself, on the piano he got to do more dynamics, which Bach didn't get to do until around 1720, really. Which W A Moz piano sonatas do you like the most, I've been listening to a few as of late but can't find the one I heard that I wanted to hear again. And NO it's not Rondo Al a Turkei. (My wife is from Turkey).

@@randomtux392 Well wenn his patron Swieten got Mozart some Bach sheets , Mozart had to concede that even he could learn from those pieces.

I love Bach as well. But I agree. What about Mozart?@@randomtux392

With Mozart you feel the joy he felt when he was playing. Bach wrote his music in service of God so I feel it makes sense that it should feel more laborious. Of course, when you’re serving God, you’re serving the people so the joy is all ours when Bach is played.

Solace is a word ive heard the Great Sting use to describe a feeling for music. And i get it with his music so i get it.

Well put. I have a similar experience, though there's been a constant positioning between Bach and Vivaldi for me as 'most influential' throughout my life.

There's no such thing as too much Bach.

@@Sirhan_Lohan Bach and Vivaldi are rated very differently today, but Bach rated Vivaldi as the best composer in his lifetime.

Definitely my GOAT.

Yes - the Mass has a lifetime of listening

Oddly whilst I am compelled & engaged by Bach, I could actually live without him. Not without Mozart or Beethoven, though.

For me I'd need some Dvorak as well.

That'll be a bigger book than the bible. 😁😁 (and so worth it)

His life was devoted to honor our Lord by trying to write the perfect High Mass.

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Bach's strong Lutheran faith inspired, motivated and informed his music. This said, it does not follow that a divine hand was necessary. There are plenty and sufficient reasons for the greatness of Bach's works. He was born and lived at the end of the baroque period, the renaissance not too far behind him, the approaching classical period already showing its traits.He was a terrific music sponge and incredibly hard worker since childhood. He was born into a family of musicians. Virtually nothing he created was new in itself: he learned from older and contemporary Italian, French and German composers, assimilating styles and technique, modifying, expanding and re-assembling through the years. Amongst a long list of great composers, he possessed what can be easily considered the greatest musical intelligence of all. In short, Bach's music and all great art, can intimate the transcendent, but that does not point to any specific source, god or goddess. If anything, Bach's genius proves he was a man with a great musical mind. That's it. The rest is armchair speculations, non sequiturs and the tiresome unjustified appropriations of the religious who see miracles everywhere, while the simpler and obvious truth is in front of their noses.

@@atomicwedgie8176 Bach's strong Lutheran faith inspired, motivated and informed his music. This said, it does not follow that a divine hand was necessary. There are plenty and sufficient reasons for the greatness of Bach's works. He was born and lived at the end of the baroque period, the renaissance not too far behind him, the approaching classical period already showing its traits.He was a terrific music sponge and incredibly hard worker since childhood. He was born into a family of musicians. Virtually nothing he created was new in itself: he learned from older and contemporary Italian, French and German composers, assimilating styles and technique, modifying, expanding and re-assembling through the years. Amongst a long list of great composers, he possessed what can be easily considered the greatest musical intelligence of all. In short, Bach's music and all great art, can intimate the transcendent, but that does not point to any specific source, god or goddess. If anything, Bach's genius proves he was a man with a great musical mind. That's it. The rest is armchair speculations, non sequiturs and the tiresome unjustified appropriations of the religious who see miracles everywhere, while the simpler and obvious truth is in front of their noses.

Checks out.

I agree, there was simply no contemporary that could even begin to compare, and few since his time.

Saying that "genius" is a word that gets thrown around too much but he's a genius, is a cliche that gets thrown around too much but it's true.

Robert Greenberg, for his The Great Courses "Bach And The High Baroque" goes into just what his job as "Choralmeister" entailed. I can't imagine writing new music every week, plus teaching, plus plus plus, and THEN having 23 children, too! On top of this were the great Mass pieces, and things like the Brandenberg Concertos, Goldberg variations, and other freelance works. I get chills when I think of how much we LOST of Bach because nobody was collecting it as it was being written!

@@CurtHowland Greenberg is brilliant. Love his courses. I majored in music in college, but his courses go beyond much of the history I was taught.

Which work is it?

@@8og7crtxrftghjujhre4dztu8ljghard to say. He used that tune in three or four settings. O sacred head, sore wounded, I think Also used by Paul Simon for American Tune

@@fsinjin60 I now found it. It is "Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)".

@@8og7crtxrftghjujhre4dztu8ljg I think you are right. My guess, aka O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, is similar but not the same. Both are used in Weihnachtsoratorium: #40 for Jesu, miene freund and #5 & #57 for o sacred head

Things that definitely happened

Great post! As a non-musician I still share your sentiments. Even on the last day of my life I still want to be enchanted by something new I heard or discovered in a piece of music. Any day without such a moment is just not a good day. PS. As a non-American I'll just say it's my human dream! 😀

Ohhh. Nice. I will have to check that recording out. 🙂

@@carole8312Make sure you also check out "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" by Carlos. Not all Bach but all baroque.

I like Carlos’ “Switched on Brandenburgs” (Concertos) the best…..👍

@@budfoon Thank you. I will.

There are a couple of quite nice versions of the Goldberg Variations played on accordion. It actually works surprisingly well. Bach transcends instruments!

He was talking about a cheesecake that was out of view from the camera.

Cheesecake, because he dun like donuts!

Yeah, meanwhile JS Bach clears his throat... with respect to Yngwie, this bit was no doubt inspired by Bach.

then proceeds to butcher Bach

@@e.d.1642 Yes, that's what I heard too. Steve Morse did a much more faithful bit of Bach playing.

Completely. Nothing compares. OK, maybe John Coltrane. End of list

A lot of composers Vivaldi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Paganini, Richard Wagner, Pietro mascagni, Gregorio aleghieri , Thomas tallis, dvorak, George Frederick Handel

@@MusicismoreImportant Not Mozart or Beethoven?

@@joemarshall4226 yeah of course

@@joemarshall4226 Franz Joseph Haydn, Handel,Bach influenced them , but yeah, everyone had originality then

Oh, my goodness, Mr. Savadel. That is the single most beautiful compliment one could ever receive. You are amazing for sharing such an insight!

What do you think Bach might say it means…in words?

@@tonymagrogan to be capable and able to see the beauty of Gods love for us.

@@TomSavadel Amen to that!

ive heard that said about shakespeare as well

Well in Toronto the current Korean embassy around the corner from where my family lived was the Music Library ... everything was there, Alan Bates reading Dante's Inferno, James Joyce reading from Dubliners so far away in time ... I discovered Pericles Prince of Tyre there and the music OMG amazing. Now you can still go down to the music library at the UofT but that's it.

I always despised and derided heavy metal, until I worked with a guy who was a very talented heavy metal guitarist and he, knowing I was a classical fan, pointed out how much heavy metal is influenced by baroque & classical - & specifically Bach. I still don't like heavy metal - but at least I respect it a bit more.

@@Beer_Dad1975 i get not liking metal its an acquired taste

@@sk8terkyd326 Agreed, I'm not one to say anyone's music is crap - if it doesn't touch me, it doesn't mean it's not good for someone - it just doesn't work for me. Always pisses me off when someone says "That's crap!" - I mean, I don't get Taylor Swift, I turn her off or skip her if I can - but it's not up to me to claim she's crap - she just doesn't work for me. That heavy metal guy (Andrew) taught me that, because he knew a lot more about music than I ever will.

@@Beer_Dad1975 I've heard more than a couple very knowledgeable musicologists opine that the Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor is nothing but first-rank heavy metal guitar shredding played on a pipe organ. I think they make a really good case.

Hope you're doing better!

@@BigJacques69 Thank you, I am!

You confirm my opinion that Bach's music restores your brain wiring to where it's supposed to be. It is a profoundly healing experience.

Ditto... My orchestra teacher in 4th grade in Santa Cruz, CA in the '70s would often play for the class to inspire us (She had previously been a first chair violinist with a prestigious orchestra back east). She changed my life by introducing me to Bach, which clicked on a light inside me... Children need to be exposed to music at a young age. 💜

The arts generally, performing arts especially, music certainly.

Our public school played a classical piece over the PA system every Friday before school let out, must have been 3rd grade. I can still remember a great deal of them, and it definitely piqued my interest in classical music.

Not just the supernal quality of his music and then the quantity of it all is just staggering.

*thousands* ?

On guitar I have the same impression. After you play his music few times you don't forget it aymore. It flows naturally

Then I think you are a titan for recognizing a titan. 😊

I can’t play any instruments- period. But Bach’s music brings me peace, happiness, joy and is balm to my soul. It brings me inner harmony and healing.

Me too, man 🥲🥲

The entire suite is beautiful.

As beings with good heart, we must be vegan. Dominion (2018)

Honestly, have always felt like an idiot or a poor student of music for not liking and understanding J.S. Bach, technically or emotionally. Back when I was learning flute in school, I was forced to practise his studies, and never ended up connecting with anything he composed. What am I missing? Or is it just a mismatch of taste? I love most opera (especially French), old lays & carols, some chamber music, jazz, and more modern atonal pieces.

@@pendafen7405 Have you tried listening to more of his works? Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Art of Fugue, B Minor Mass, Cello Suites? Go through all of it and see if you can find one piece or single movement that you enjoy. Listen to it over and over until you know it very well, then listen to various recordings of that same piece until you have a taste for which recording you like best. Then ask why you enjoy that one most. This is the fastest way to cultivate an appreciation for a piece of music, in my opinion. Then ask why you like that particular piece better than other works by Bach.

@@pendafen7405 What works do you know? Have you listened to, say, cantata BWV 78? That's a wonderful piece, and in my opinion rather easy to appreciate, so if you hate that, then probably your case is hopeless...

​@@pendafen7405 - listen to the first movement of the Brandenburg Concerto #5 or the last movements of Brandenburg #3 and #6 - if none of those get you, nothing of Bach's will and I would just have to conclude that you are somehow wired differently than most humans - not better or worse, just differently, which is great - as it takes all types to make a world, as they say...

Yes I second this. Chris is incredible. The recent Nickel Creek album is a masterpiece too.

@@joshlovegood9392 they have a new album?? where can I hear it?

@@vervor It’s called “Celebrants”. It should be available on KZfaq and all streaming platforms.

Or just interview Chris Thile.

What's the source for this quotation (which sounds very suspicious to me) ?

Bach is the maestro number one of course. It should not been forgotten that there are tons of almost forgotten composers who are just astonishing. Buxtehude, Telemann, Mattheson, Monteverdi

@@frenchimp The only valid assertion is that Handel preceded Bach.

​@wirrbel They haven't been forgotten. And I think history has justifiably placed everyone accordingly and accurately. Those others aren't in the same league as Bach. Bach stands alone.

@@wirrbel Composers as Telemann and Monteverdi I would certainly not qualify as forgotten, Mattheson perhaps...

It's because it is not only brain. It is brain and heart and spirit.

He wrote a whole Cantata - 20m of music every week for SIX YEARS! Blows your mind to imagine the sheer volume and quality in his music.

Plus he wrote a book about the pianoforte(Das wohltemperirte Clavier), changed the tuning of stringed instruments to what we are using since, co-developed the piano as we know it, wrote whole new music for every church event, was leading the Thomaner Choir, wrote countless songs for kids and raising twenty! of them!. Nine daughters and eleven sons in two marriages! All of this plus a lot more in just one life of 65 years! A giant. @@nicholasrees1838

CPE had a major influence on the Classical styles of Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven.

There was a lot of genius in that Bach family!

Interesting that you mention Lübeck, as that was a place that was critical in the formation of Bach’s organ-playing and composing skills.