Donald Macleod examines Bach's character, warts and all, through five different periods in the composer's life, to try and get a better understanding of the man and his art.

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German musician and composer who wrote throughout the 18th Century. For most of his career, Bach worked as an organist and choirmaster at various churches throughout ...

Rather than the usual aural assault, this morning I decided to tune my radio to 89.9 FM (WKCR here in NYC), who are celebrating the life of Johann Sebastian Bach all week ... and listening to Bach ...

In his youth, Johann Sebastian Bach was known only as a virtuoso organist ... in numerous sacred works. Week 4 Bach “borrowed” and parodied other composers, and freely transcribed his own works. The ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is considered one of the great composers of Western classical music. Now, researchers are trying to figure out why – by analysing his music with information theory.

The world’s most popular classical composer has to be Johann Sebastian Bach. Tastes may diverge, but everyone from scholars to casual classical fans seems to agree that he’s the emotionally ...

Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) was a classical composer, the eleventh son of his more famous father, Johann Sebastian. The youngest of J. S. Bach's sons, Johann Christian was born in Leipzig, ...

They had come to record hip-hop videos about Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian ... of a band of composers called B²TSM. (Inspired by K-pop, the band’s name stands for Bach, Beethoven ...

In 1650, German composer Samuel Scheidt published his ... Nearly a century later, in 1736, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a harmonization of this chorale melody and published it as a sacred song ...