"Tellegen describes a visit that Mozart made to Leipzig, where he stopped at the church where Bach had been cantor. Apparently, he hadn't yet heard Bach's music, so someone obligingly played one of the master's cantatas. After a few seconds, Mozart shot up and said, "What's this?" Rapt, he focused intently on the glorious sound, then declared, "This is someone a fellow can learn from!" Savoring this anecdote of an incomprehensible genius attending to another, Tellegen says ..."

Winifred Gallagher