This vivid work, which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, brings an experimental spirit to its arresting musical ...

After the new staged version premieres April 11, in Pittsburgh, it heads to New York’s Corpus Christi Church for a ...

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 ... him as his unquestioning religious belief.

Johann Sebastian Bach was so important to the baroque era, and so prolific as a composer, that Sunday Baroque devoted TWO ...

Johann Sebastian Bach ... book of 18th Century music. In a lesser composer's hands, this might have sounded a bit mathematical, mechanical and boring – but not with Bach! This is especially ...

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 ...