The Atlantic

John Sebastian Bach: 1685-1885

HARDLY one month after the birth of Handel, his twin star rose, of equal lustre and importance. John Sebastian Bach was born on the 21st of March, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, under the shadow of the ...

Two previously unknown scores by Johann Sebastian Bach identified after a 35-year investigation

Germany has celebrated this revelation, attributed to Peter Wollny, who conducted extensive research after discovering the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘St. John Passion’: Bach’s Strange, Sublime Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes, we instantly ...
Rutland Herald

St. John Passion: Upper Valley Baroque mounts J.S. Bach masterpiece

Upper Valley Baroque will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, St. John Passion, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1724. It proved so important to the composer ...
The New York Times

A Study of Bach.; JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH. The Organist and His Works for the Organ. By A. Pirro, with a preface by Ch. M. Widor. Translated from the French by Wallace Goodrich ...

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