Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...

He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but ...

Johann Sebastian Bach, in his position as composer and church organist, barely had time to enjoy the fruits of his written work in performance from one week to the next. Such was the nature of his ...

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...

If one were to compile a list of the seven musical wonders of the world, then Bach's Cantatas might head it. Just over 200 surviving works range from scores for solo voice with varying accompaniments ...

American Classical Orchestra will present an all–Johann Sebastian Bach concert conducted by Thomas Crawford at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer. The concert takes place in February in New York City.

If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured by Johann Sebastian, these 18 cantatas provide the answer. With so little ...

These three cantatas have long been in the canon as celebrated examples of Bach in the first flush of Leipzig creativity – from 1723 to 1726, before he realised that his talents were better employed ...

Classical music listeners will be drawn to Lauren Belfer’s new novel, “And After the Fire,” but many of them may be in for an unpleasant jolt. Belfer’s novel is a mix of history and fiction. The plot ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...

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 ...