We celebrate the birthday of (arguably) the most important composer in classical music canon – Johnan Sebastian Bach.

My fondest memory of him is lying down in my dorm room, thinking of some girl, and listening to his Passion of Saint Matthew (though for some reason, the CD of it I owned used the French title, Pasion de Saint-Mathieu). It is still the most epic of his works and the one which shows best his ability to match sweeping works like Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth Symphonies.