J.S. Bach was a very busy man. Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wives Maria Barbara (m. 1707–1720) and Anna Magdalena (m. 1721–1750), fathered 20 children over his lifetime. His first was born in 1708 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is everywhere ... The correct date depends on whom you ask. Bach was born in Thuringia in 1685, when the German state was still observing the Julian calendar.

When he was 48, Johann Sebastian Bach acquired a copy of Luther's three ... who just happened to work with a keyboard. He was born and schooled in Eisenach, Thuringia (at the same school Luther ...

Three hundred years ago on March 21 Johann Sebastian Bach was born. The event is as though God had decided to clear His throat to remind the world of His existence. That existence had been greatly ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -Today is Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday. Or is it? The great German composer was born on March 21, 1685, which also should have coincided with the spring equinox. Seems ...

In 2006, Martin Jarvis, a Welsh-born musician who teaches at Charles Darwin University, in Australia, aired a startling theory about Johann Sebastian Bach, the undisputed arch-magus of the Western ...

None of them earned more than a local reputation and, surprising as it may seem, ‘the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music’, Johann Sebastian himself ... him as his unquestioning religious belief.

Fueled by his Lutheran faith, the composer devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary because of his ...