00:00this composer went blind and just composed harder. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 1,000 pieces of
00:07music. Then Cataract stole his sight in his late 60s. He tried two brutal eye surgeries. Both
00:15failed catastrophically. The surgeon later blinded Handel, too. But Bach didn't stop. He dictated
00:22music note by note. His son-in-law wrote down every single sound. Bach finished his final chorale
00:29just days before his death in 1750. Here's the wild part. Neuroscientists discovered blindness can
00:37sharpen musical imagination dramatically. Losing sight rewires the brain for sound. Bach's final
00:44compositions may have been his most complex ever. His greatest work came from his darkest moment.
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