There aren’t many years as significant in music history as 1685. Two of the giants among composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, were born that year, and the 1985 tercentenary ...

He came from a distinguished musical lineage in Germany, many of whom were also composers and musicians. In his day Bach was revered as a virtuoso organist, however his legacy lies in the hundreds of ...

Azerbaijan State Academic Philharmonic Hall has presented the concert program "In the Shadow of Bach", AzerNEWS reports.

1. In his lifetime, Bach wrote a total of at least 175 hours of music. 2. His first wife was his second cousin. They had seven children. He had 13 more children with his second wife. 3. Bach and ...

BERLIN (AP) - A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach considered one of the most important paintings in the classical music world is being returned to his home city after a 250-year odyssey that took it ...

March 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the life of composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach with an interactive, musical Doodle. Bach, born in the German town of Eisenach on this day in 1685, grew ...

During his 27 years in Leipzig, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a hectic job writing original music for the city’s principal churches and civic functions, as well as teaching singing at the St.

Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach is known to have written many chorale cantatas, polyphonic hymns based on Lutheran texts. Each is fairly simple, featuring a single melody accompanied by three ...

In honor of what would have been renowned German composer Johann Sebastian Bach's 334th birthday, Google's doodle team created its first AI-powered doodle for the search engine homepage Thursday. The ...

Bach’s music is back in fashion 334 years after the composer was born, new figures show. The research released by the Royal Albert Hall and global music streaming service Deezer shows a boom in ...

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 ...