Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from Johann Sebastian Bach to Ludwig van Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations. to Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations.
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
While I was writing the songs for 'Fuzz Universe,' I was immersing myself in Bulgarian Female Choir music, Baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny Cash songs about trains, cows, mules, and mining coal, the Bee Gees, and Ronnie James Dio.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.
You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
