"Comfort ye my people." Every time I hear this aria, words by Isaiah, music by Handel, I get all teary-eyed. Johann Sebastian Bach, the grandfather of all musicians, said that the only purpose of music was to glorify the Creator or to recreate the human spirit. That is why we don't work the piano; we play it.
J.S. Bach, 1685-1750: In addition to composing thousands of major works, he is probably the inventor of the tempered tuning used in all keyboards today. He was the inventor of modern harmony and is even credited with beginning the use of the thumbs in keyboard playing.
G.F. Handel, an exact contemporary of Bach, is best known for composing the Hallelujah Chorus.
