J S Bach

He was the master in hs style.

Even his kids realize that, spenting their musical lives searching in other directions. They were smart and thought that they could never beat the old guy.

lucas wrote: philippe wrote: Bach written ones of the most boring pieces in Classical music...I've played almost all his preludes and fugues from the well tempered clavier...now I get tired of it!! Maybe it is boring but it will surely better stand the test of time than most of the krautrock/electronic and other weird musics.

It's too early to confirm that...but I let you the opportunity to think so! You should say Prog music in general won't pass the test of time...Symphonic and art rock is by far more dated than krautrock

I've listened to novackeck small study pieces...great!!! an excellent exemple of cool, emotional & technical violin solo (just as Paganini caprices)

Classical violinist Hilary Hahn once said: "Nobody ever says: 'God, I hate Bach!' He was the fundament for everything that followed." I have nothing to add to that, except that I play his preludes and fugues too, and I never get tired of them (only my left hand does because Bach surely gives you a lot to do there, more than any other composer)

Certif1ed wrote: Except, maybe, Chopin or Liszt?

Chopin and especially Liszt give you a lot to do, but still the left hand is mostly accompaniment (apart from double handed runs over the keyboard). But Bach treats both hands equally; that's what I meant to say in my post. With Bach you have to play different voices with the left hand too. Bach sounds easy to play compared to Liszt, but because of this characteristic Bach is difficult as hell. No wonder Glenn Gould loved Bach so much.