Happy Birthday J.S. Bach

[Ostinato Rubato]

The most prolific musician to ever walk the planet. The father of classical music. Without him, you'd suck. Happy Birthday Johan Sebastian Bach!!!!






... also, IB4...

[Telephant]

Certainly one of the baddest motherfuckers all time.

[TurboPablo]

Bach made beautiful music.

[Ostinato Rubato]

Bach practically laid the foundation of tonal harmony (Haydn refined it and Beethoven mastered it, IMO) and nobody has written more beautiful counterpoint melodies than Bach, ever.

[MikeO]

I think Bach was, by far, the most talented human who ever walked the planet. The complexity and beauty of his music is unparalleled, in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned none of the other well known composers are even in the same league as him. Not to knock them, but Bach's music was that good.

He set the bar so high that it changed the direction of music, because no one else could reach the height he did, so they just headed in another direction. I remember studying music in college and our professor explaining to us that the Baroque period changing into the Classical period really was a product of Bach taking the contrapuntal aspect of composing so far that the level of complexity he achieved in his music basically made everyone else's head spin. Knowing that none of them could match what he was doing, everyone started moving in a different musical direction (less complexity, more instruments/layering) that was essentially the genesis of the classical period.

[Ostinato Rubato]

I think Bach was, by far, the most talented human who ever walked the planet. The complexity and beauty of his music is unparalleled, in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned none of the other well known composers are even in the same league as him. Not to knock them, but Bach's music was that good.

He set the bar so high that it changed the direction of music, because no one else could reach the height he did, so they just headed in another direction. I remember studying music in college and our professor explaining to us that the Baroque period changing into the Classical period really was a product of Bach taking the contrapuntal aspect of composing so far that the level of complexity he achieved in his music basically made everyone else's head spin. Knowing that none of them could match what he was doing, everyone started moving in a different musical direction (less complexity, more instruments/layering) that was essentially the genesis of the classical period.

You sir know exactly what the fuck you are talking about.

For me it's Bach and Beethoven as the two ultimate musicians of all time. Bach's counterpoint will never be touched, and Beethoven's orchestration and arrangement will never be touched. Other guys did their part in between, like Hayden working out cadences and shit, but yeah at the end of the day... without Bach... we'd all suck. Period.

[downstemmed]

^ word. Bach would've destroyed every composition and killed himself, if he were to hear the Billboard Top 40.