Conductor Grete Pedersen asks us to “listen, listen, listen” this month as the Festival’s international ensemble presents ...

Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. Yet his overlooked choral music may ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival honors the composer with a hit parade. Over 8,000 fans from 20 countries cast their votes. But Bach is celebrated in many other countries around the world as well.

Johann Sebastian Bach has been a central figure in the life of British conductor John Eliot Gardiner since he was a youngster. On his way to bed, he couldn't help glancing up at the famous ...

Even today, centuries after he lived, Johann Sebastian Bach remains one of the world's most popular composers. On Spotify, close to seven million people stream his music per month, and his listener ...

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 ...

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, from ...

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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas not only inspire choirs worldwide, but also those who can't actually hear his music, as seen at the Leipzig Bach Festival. Eighty-eight people move on a large stage to ...

To study whether Johan Sebastian Bach music has a lowering effect on resting energy expenditure (REE) similar to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music. Three REE measurements were performed in each of ...

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