Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> agrees with me: >I entirely agree with everything you say (and the stuff I omitted). > >But...if we take a straw poll of the great composers themselves, I think >the answer would be that they consider Bach to be the man. Let us make the agreeing mutual. The thing is I think you have a point here. Sjostakovitj, Mendelssohn and Reger are only a few examples of composers who expressed admiration for Bach as the greatest of composers. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]