Johann sebastian bach

Portrait J.S Bach, aged around 60, by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1748. Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Western musical canon.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann-Sebastian Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Is this how the great Baroque composer could have looked in the flesh?

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach Against Modernity By Michael Marissen Oxford University Press, 200 pages, $34.95 In a scene in the 2022 movie Tár, a Juilliard student declares to his professor: “As a BIPOC pan-gender person, I would say Bach’s misogynistic life makes it impossible” to play or conduct the German composer—in part because of the 20 children he obliged his two wives to bear. It is a caricature of woke excess: There has been no serious attempt to cancel Bach for living in the era before birth control. The…

Statue of Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, Germany, summer 2016

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Today, we celebrate J.S. Bach's 333rd birthday. Here is the most divine version of his 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' you're likely to hear.

J.S. Bach (portrait de Johann Jakob Ihle, 1720)

Today, we celebrate J.S. Bach's 333rd birthday. Here is the most divine version of his 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' you're likely to hear.

J.S.Bach