German composer, conductor, performer, and teacher, Max Reger (1863-1916) famously said: “Bach is the beginning and end of all music.” Bach’s influence can be found in all spheres of the ...

Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) was a classical composer, the eleventh son of his more famous father, Johann Sebastian. The youngest of J. S. Bach's sons, Johann Christian was born in Leipzig, ...

CPE Bach was one of the first composers to produce an autobiography. Donald Macleod follows the composer's story, using Bach's own account as his guide.

I’ve been trying to convince metalgf for some time that modern metal (much of it, anyway) is an extension of classical music, and listening to Bach this morning drove that point home. Bach — even ...

Many Christmas standards were not written by Christians. David Lang explains the appeal for him, a Jewish composer of a ...

1/5 Donald Macleod tells the story of the loss - and later rediscovery - of CPE Bach’s music.

Bach's music "touches people very deeply," says the founder of Seattle Bach Festival, which launches its inaugural season ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...

Camerata Pacifica launches the New Year with the first of two programs on the Camerata Pacifica Baroque series curated by ...

Pro Musica closes its 2024 holiday offerings with Bach and Beyond, a pair of concerts featuring J.S. Bach's six Brandenburg ...