JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Abstract, yet (or therefore) the broadest palette of expression.
Best exemplifies what makes music a unique art form.
Definitely a constructivist (rigorous complex form) yet also capable of loose fantasy, improvisation.
By not overtly expressing, strikes most powerful subtle complex means of expression, transcendantal. Universal timeless appeal. Revisit Bach often and always find new things.
Bach interpretation: diversity is great. Period Orthodoxy, Classic, Romantic, 20th Century, jazz even. It all works! All sheds new light on this fascinating music, emphasizing how much is actually in there! Bach's music like the tora for jews (1000 faces to every word). No coincidence referred to so much: Beethoven's late fugues, Schoenberg's use of "B.A.C.H", etc.

Bach
All music is in Bach:
Simple elegance of the classics
Expression of romantism
Overwhelming Excess of post romantism
Chromatic leading to atonal
Seeds of Impressionism, Expressionism, Jazz...
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Not a revolutionary. The excess of conservatism actually.
The foundation of occidental music.
Works in any style. Revisited endlessly, an infinite source of wonder and fascination.

Art of the Fugue

Organ Works

Well Tempered Clavier