Johann Sebastian Bach

Germany, 1700–1750

The supreme Baroque composer. His counterpoint and organ fugues became the foundation for baroque-pop and progressive rock.

Influenced by

• Dieterich Buxtehude
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Arcangelo Corelli

Influenced

• Eduard Artemiev
• Procol Harum
• Nina Simone
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Robert Schumann
• Frédéric Chopin
• Johannes Brahms
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Sergei Taneyev
• César Franck
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Ferruccio Busoni