An online documentary on German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, available on the Bachfest Malaysia Youtube channel, has been making its rounds among classical music fans starved of live concerts ...

None of them earned more than a local reputation and, surprising as it may seem, ‘the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music’, Johann Sebastian himself, achieved only limited fame during ... that was ...

Donald Macleod examines Bach's character, warts and all, through five different periods in the composer's life, to try and get a better understanding of the man and his art.

Bach wrote music during a time that we now call the Baroque Period, when composers were servants who worked for wealthy families providing music for weekly church ceremonies, for parties and for ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in ...

Theologian Martin Luther, composer Robert Schumann and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had all frequented Leipzig's iconic cellar restaurant over the centuries. But what makes it so special?

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...

The welcome recipients are school choir boys and girls who’ve just emerged from Leipzig’s St Thomas church after a concert celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach ... and the composer and musician ...

But Johann Christian does have an essential lesson to impart to the young Mozart: that all of human life is a mystery. And ...