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Thank you for visiting my channel, I hope you enjoy it. It's made exclusively to celebrate the glory of the One who I consider to be by far the greatest musician the world has ever known, Johann Sebastian Bach. Nowhere else have I ever seen such an astoundingly obvious supremacy as that of Herr Bach in the musical field. Nobody can touch Him, not even close, His superiority above the rest is undeniable. "To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time." - Pablo Casals "And if we look at the works of JS Bach - a benevolent god to which all musicians should offer a prayer to defend themselves against mediocrity - on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered. And in his works we will search in vain for anything the least lacking in good taste." - Claude Debussy "Bach is the beginning and end of all music." - Max Reger "...the greatest Christian music in the world...if life had taken hope and faith from me, this single chorus would restore all." - Felix Mendelssohn (On the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from Mass in B minor) "I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach." - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Not Brook but Ocean should be His name." - Ludwig Van Beethoven "Now there is music from which a man can learn something." - W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig) "Study Bach: there you will find everything." - Johannes Brahms "Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure." - Karl Barth "Bach is Bach, as God is God." - Hector Berlioz "O you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you." - Giuseppi Verdi "...the most stupendous miracle in all music!." - Richard Wagner "Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid." - Charles Gounod "The poetry, the atmosphere, the intensity of expression, the beauty of the preludes and fugues grip, overwhelm, and stimulate us. Let us not be afraid of the supreme contrapuntal science of the fugues, nor be overawed by the stern appearance and heavy wig of Father Bach. Let us gather around him, feel the love, the noble goodness that flow from each one of his phrases and that invigorate and bind us by ties strong and warm." - Carl Friedrich Zelter (letter to Goethe, 9 June 1827) "Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way." - Pablo Casals "Any musician, even the most gifted, takes a place second to Bach's at the very start." - Paul Hindemith "If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach..." - Aaron Copland "In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God." - Gustav Mahler "If Bach is not in Heaven.....I am not going!" - William F. Buckley "I have this to say about Bachs works; listen, play, love, revere - and keep your trap shut" - Albert Einstein Thanks everybody for the nice comments and reviews on this channel, much appreciated. Soli Bach Gloria!!!

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