Even those who are not classical music fans know and love Bach, one of the world's most listened-to composers, whose music has moved different epochs and cultures. And anyone has danced at least once to a piece by Prince, who mixed black music, funk, dance and pop, creating entirely new and unique sounds. But what do these two great interpreters of their time have in common? Both determined genuine turning points in the history of music. That one did so in the court of eighteenth-century monarchs and emperors and the other in the age of Mtv, does not change the issue, indeed that is precisely what makes it so fascinating.

«Much more is revealed by Carlo Boccadoro in this brilliant book of his. Among whose merits, the one inherent with the author's style is the total lack of snobbery. One appreciates the taste for interweaving the high with the low… The willingness to explore and accurately report technical details of considerable complexity without making them hostile or above common understanding, indeed often treating the subject matter with beautiful levity. In short, no one is putting himself in a cathedra; intelligence and curiosity reign here. In other words, the Art of Fugue. An escape from the predicted, the known, the dusty and the obvious. Just glide through the reading and the idea of paralleling two artists who are so seemingly difficult to juxtapose becomes, page after page, clearer, more sensible and enjoyable». Ivano Fossati, Robinson – La Repubblica