Foundation Quote by Charles Gounod

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)”

— Arnold Bax

“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start…

— John Eliot Gardiner

“Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some pieces for…

— Patrick O'Brian

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that…

— Edith Hamilton

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery…

— Russell Sherman

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional…

— Nigel Kennedy

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

— Edith Hamilton

“Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists…

— Mark Helprin

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

— Hector Berlioz