No composer has more universal appeal than Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The plethora of concerts, festivals, recordings and publications that came in the wake of the Bach Anniversary Year of ...

In 18th-century Europe, coffee shifted from being a luxury good to an everyday treat. And the German city of Leipzig, where ...

A part of Music at Duke Chapel's "Odes and Oratorios" series, the concert featured a talk by Chapel organist Chad Fothergill ...

The actor plays the legendary composer during a late-in-life meeting with the king of Prussia in a play by Oliver Cotton at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

There are countless great composers in classical music.Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Debussy...Even so, there are three people who appear at the center of the conversation time and again ...

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 ...

Sony has claimed that it owns the copyright for the works of Johann Sebastian Bach—more than 1,100 of them. Now, you might think the fact that Bach died in 1750 would put his music safely in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a good year for Messiahs and an equally good one for the “classically-related" repertoire. Piffaro: The Renaissance Band Drive the Cold Winter Away: A Renaissance Christmas Celebration Self ...