I disagree; I find many of Bach’s compositions to be devoid of heart, just intellectual in some mathematical way.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy many of his compositions for what they are. The thing about music and many other arts is that it is a fools errand to attempt to give them a total ordering; there are things to enjoy about wildly differing styles of music that I think people do a disservice to themselves being restrictive.

For example, some don’t like classical music because they say it’s not danceable. Well, duh it’s mostly not, but that’s not the point of it. It about enjoying the melodies and harmony and structure.

So one can compare art on specific axes, but to say such and such is the greatest composer is kind of meaningless to me.