Why John Sebastian Bach is popular?

Answer 1

Johann Sebastian Bach is "popular" because he devised a system of counterpoint in the earliest days of Baroque Music. Antonio Vivaldi also wrote many pieces based on this counterpoint. Leopold Mozart studied Bach for many years of his life during his early Vienna years before the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Everybody praises Mozart as the greatest composer of all time, and he was taught "modernized Bach" counterpoint in his youth. His Minuet in G, written at age 4 before his first formal lesson uses Bach" Counterpoint. But back to Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a renowned organ player and klavier improviser. He wrote the "Well Tempered Klavier", which was a suite of counterpoint exercises in every possible key, and he tuned the klavier (a harpsichord) between numbers, as it was customary to tune a keyboard during the concert. This is quite long-winded, but I am trying to make a point. Bach had obvious talent in the early Baroque era and his counterpoint rules shaped what music is today. There are college course(which I am taking) on how the early Baroque style is still present in modern music. Even heavy metal has a trace of Bach and Fux counterpoint. (I won't go in to detail on Fux)