A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred music is ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival honors the composer with a hit parade. Over 8,000 fans from 20 countries cast their votes. But Bach ...

The German composer, born 341 years ago, dominates the classical charts and concert platforms, especially at this time of year. Here’s to his life-giving zombie music! The musical world’s present for ...

When singing a round, a mysterious phenomenon occurs. One voice begins the melody, and others follow with a delay. Even as the melodies and lyrics diverge, they sound harmonious, growing richer with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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For six successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan’s Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth, Pianist Harold ...

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” The words of the Psalm look bright on the page, but the music pulls them into shadow. The key is G minor. The bass instruments drone on ...

Artificial intelligence can imitate the works of Bach so well that you (probably) can’t tell the difference. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself. The computer-generated music in these samples is the ...