Only the youngest of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons departed the German homeland. Born in 1735, Johann Christian began his long sojourn in Italy in 1755 and converted to Catholicism; luckily the stern ...

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 ...

In the case of Bach the opposite is true: The works are the most critical surviving document, and they must be used to flesh-in the life. This has led to highly interpretative studies of Bach in the ...

The life of Johann Sebastian Bach will be explored through slides, commentary and music in three sessions at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Rochester. John A. Schultz, organ and choir master at the ...

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, ...