Johann Sebastian Bach studied the works of Arcangelo Corelli, which significantly influenced his musical development. Along with other Italian composers, Corelli's compositions taught Bach to write dramatic openings and employ dynamic rhythms and decisive harmonic schemes. Bach was also indebted to Corelli for the singing violin style evident in his works.
Bach highly valued Corelli's instrumental compositions and borrowed themes from them for his own use. Specifically, Bach based an organ fugue (BWV 579) on Corelli's Opus 3 from 1689.
