“Niche Bach, sondern Meer!” (Not a brook, but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven On March 31, 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Holy Roman ...

And since Bach and Mozart are two of my absolute favorite composers, there's an affinity there, a stylistic affinity, that is the only reason that, decades later, I'm still having fun doing this.

In a development that could put Worcester in the center of a world-wide cultural map for a decade or more, Music Worcester will perform all of 18th century German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian ...

A review of Bach against Modernity by Michael Marissen. The experience of listening to great music leads many of us naturally to wonder about the lives of the composers who wrote it. In some cases, ...

BART invites local musicians to participate in its "Bach in the Subways" program, beginning Thursday and ending on the 339-year anniversary of the German composer's birth March 31. This year's event ...

Santa Fe Pro Musica will perform a feast of Bach for the holidays. Organizers divided the series into three sections, running Dec. Wednesday, Dec. 20, to Saturday, Dec. 23, and Thursday, Dec. 28, to ...

Bach biographers don’t have it easy. Has there ever been a composer who wrote so much extraordinary music and left so little documentation of his personal life? Life-writing abhors a vacuum, and ...

Bach will not open the 18th annual St. Philip's Friends of Music's Bach Marathon this weekend. Instead, his contemporaries Handel and Rameau will hog the spotlight on Day 1 of the three-day festival ...

It's not often audiences get a chance to hear Bach masterpieces performed on instruments from the Baroque period or crafted to replicate the lower-pitch sound of the pivotal classical music era — and ...