Learning, or trying to learn, pieces by Bach used to be something highly frustrating to me. And, once I had done so, I dreaded the very idea of learning anything else by him. Not only was it frustrating, but most of the time I didn't particularly like the song, or quickly got tired of the repetitive, Baroque style. Maybe I didn't quite understand it. Recently, however, I've been listening to his music more often, and I think I'm coming to understand it better and appreciate it much more than I did. It's like reading a book, or poem, which, upon your first reading, you find too dry, too aloof, or too boring; then you come back to it later, read it again, and see it with a whole different interpretation. I still don't like everything by Bach, but I keep finding pieces I do like, and which convince me that, whether I'm a fan of him or not, he was definitely a genius.
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