It's a bit like asking, why don't they do math like Euler anymore? we haven't exhausted the Bach we have. It's a lifetime's work just to study and appreciate i

It's a bit like asking, why don't they do math like Euler anymore? we haven't exhausted the Bach we have. It's a lifetime's work just to study and appreciate it all. There are composers who have written great homages, my current favorite is Agustin Barrios' "La Cathedral," second movement (https://youtu.be/dmc6KV0_UVM?t=271 https://youtu.be/dmc6KV0_UVM?t=271), which has most of the elements of one of Bach's preludes. It begs the question of what would it even mean to compose like that? You can't reproduce it with fractals or anything procedural. You might be able to use AI to imitate it, but each voice is a distinct set of musical ideas and someone has to have those to write them. The start would be to just start doing arrangements of his work to begin to understand them. It's a different relationship to music, where it doesn't bear imitation.