Johann Sebastian Bach is everywhere. Weddings? Bach. Haunted houses? Bach. Church? Bach. Shredding electric guitar solos? Look, it’s Bach! The Baroque composer produced more than 1100 works ...

7. Johann Sebastian Bach is an anagram of “I bash a banjo – enchants”. 8. Both Bach’s parents died when he was 10. He was brought up by his older brother Johann Christoph who was a church ...

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.

Frederick the Great of Prussia, a devoted patron of the arts, had a particular interest in music and admired the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1747, Bach visited Potsdam, where his son Carl ...

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 ...

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 ...