Johann Sebastian Bach is a towering cultural icon, a composer who might be seen as the poster boy for “serious music” and spent most of his career in the service of the church. But he played many ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and ...

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, ...

If fame is in the name, then Anna Magdalena Bach is history’s most recognizable, indeed celebrated, musical woman. It wasn’t always so. During the grim poverty of her last decade she had already been ...