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		spectralista 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in... Bach's catalog would be like if Tolstoy wrote maybe 100 novels on the level of War and Peace. It has nothing to do with subjective taste. The immensity of Bach's work is almost inhuman. That still wouldn't capture Bach's influence on western music though. The combination of the immensity, originality and influence is just mind boggling.

prmph 62 days ago [–]

A large and immense catalog does not greatness make. I consider Mussorgsky's Pictures At an Exhibition to be one of the greatest compositions ever, and yet Mussorgsky was probably not the most prolific composer.

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