During the late 17th century, there was a young man who, following in his family's footsteps, diligently pursued the craft of songwriting and instrumental performance. After finishing his formal music education, he found work as an organist in a church, giving him a creative home that would foster his talent and imagination, challenge his ever-deepening Christian faith and pay him a fair wage. With this support, Johann Sebastian Bach challenged himself to compose and produce works of art that were musically groundbreaking and unrivaled in his time. His more than 1,000 concertos, cantatas, and chorales certainly pushed forward the musical boundaries of his day but also captured the hearts and minds of generations to come.

From Beethoven to the Beach Boys, Johann Sebastian Bach's contrapuntal innovation is readily found, and continues even today in the music of a 21st century generation. But music alone is not the extent of his legacy. At the end of every one of his works, Bach inscribed the initials "SDG", shorthand for Soli Deo Gloria - "to God alone be the glory" - in witness to the ultimate source of his creation.


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