Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert, we'll hear music from Leipzig's celebration of 300 years of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was 300 years ago, in 1723, that Johann Sebastian Bach took up the ...

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach was busy with family and work obligations, so he hardly had the opportunity to travel. Italy came to ...

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes ...

The date: May 1723. The job: Thomaskantor, or music director of St. Thomas Choir. The man: Johann Sebastian Bach. The cantatas that the Baroque composer wrote during his first year on the job in ...

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 ...