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Fine. You're right, Bach's "popularity" has spiked over the last hundred years particularly, but has been rising for a while. I guess I should have made specific that I wasn't talking about general popularity (i.e. the public) but rather his popularity among musicians of importance (i.e. the people on that list and beyond).
Basically, what I was trying to say was that Bach's popularity among studying musicians has always been the highest, not that the same amount of people have always known of him. My bad for the confusion.
So yes, how many generations of musicians and how deeply they were influenced says nothing about general popularity, but it does say a lot about his greatness (I feel).
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