From Debussy who called him "a benevolent god", to Brahms who advocated studying Bach "to find everything". From Mahler who said that "in Bach the vital cells of music ... organ works. And if it's ...
Bach and his fellow German organists produced hundreds of "chorale preludes" like this one – small pieces based on a traditional hymn tune. You must enable ...
It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...
It’s hard ... the music remains the same.” Bach was always interested in the concerto form, which come from the Italian tradition — Vivaldi, Corelli and Gemeniani, among others. “And we know that ...