[Trot]

Many years ago, the Moody station in Chicago presented a biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, in which they quoted him as saying why he would write his music.

At the age of 12, if I remember correctly, he decided to dedicate all his music to the glory of God.

I am certain that's the single reason he is without peer in the world of composers. I have many works by Bach and after collecting as many as I could in some 20 years, I have many more to go. And amazingly there is so little repetition of his themes that one wonders where he came up with his ideas. I have to guess God honored his desire to write for His glory by giving him a deep well from which to draw.

Speculating, I suspect the saints will sing his music in God's presence.

[Erasmus]

Many years ago I read a commentator who explained why the Baroque era ended with Bach, and why music went on in new directions (i.e., the Classical period of Hayden, Mozart et al):

"When Bach had said his piece, he had said it all."