The genius of Bach

All my life I've claimed to like classical music. I did, I really did, but I never before had a true appreciation for the master composers. In the two years I have studied violin, I've listened to hundreds of concertos and short pieces. I then heard one of Bach's paritas "Gavotte en Rondeau", and I consider it one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Well, come to find out it's among a set of pieces that Bach essentially did as Saturday homework for Church Mass in Sunday. I then listened to his Cello concert and I am blown away. It is truly amazing how the bass notes that start the arpeggios continue in your ear throughout the arpeggio even though the string has stopped singing. There is beauty and exquisite precision in the mathematics of his compositions. I hope to keep finding new things in what I hear.