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Harry McKerrell

BIZARRE: Bach with more bite how to listen to classical music s greatest ever composer - What They Never Told You

1746-Painting by E. G. Hausmann of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, (1685-1750). Bach is depicted from the waist up, holding a sheet of music. The painting was made during Bach's lifetime.

Ask any self-respecting classical music aficionado who the greatest composer of all time is, and they’ll usually whittle down a shortlist of three key names: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and J.S. Bach.

Press them further on the issue and they will probably, though by no means inevitably, place Beethoven at number three and Mozart at two, before giving Bach the lion’s share of the plaudits in that coveted number one spot.

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