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Bach's children

Q: How many children did J.S. Bach have? A: Loads. Here’s what we know.

nina simone plays bach

Nina Simone plays a stunning Bach-style fugue in the middle of one of her classic songs

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Bach's Facebook page

If composers had Facebook: Johann Sebastian Bach's profile

San Quentin Prison interior

10 of the greatest composers who broke the law

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach: Compositions, children, biography and more facts about the great composer

Bach and wife Anna Magdalena

Did Bach’s wife write some of his best-known works?

Requiem

A guide to JS Bach's incredible Passion music

bach prelude visualisation

This visualisation of a Bach prelude lets you see just how clever the piece really is

Bach B minor Mass Monteverdi Choir

Is this the most thrilling, joyous and uplifting three minutes of music ever written?

Craig Leon Bach to Moog

This guy plays Bach’s great orchestral works on a Moog and it actually sounds great

Muppet Bach

12 weird and wonderful Bach video parodies

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Bach - Chorales: a guide

Bach's grave

Bach's biography - late works and death (1744 - 1750)

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Bach's biography: success in Leipzig (1723 - 1744)

Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Bach's biography: Prince Leopold's court in Cöthen (1717 - 1723)

Weimar town hall

Bach's biography: family in Weimar (1708 - 1717)

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Bach's biography: professional organist (1703 - 1708)

Johann Sebastian Bach at the organ

Bach's biography: musical study in Ohrdruf and Lüneburg (1695 - 1702)

Bach's father

Bach's biography: birth and tragedy in Eisenach (1685 - 1695)

Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5 - Full Works Concert Highlight of the Week

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Bach's best music for babies

Glenn Gould

Bach: Goldberg Variations - Full Works Concert Highlight of the Week

Violin

Bach - Violin Concerto in A minor

JS Bach

Bach's Last Years: His Best Works?

Harpsichord

Baroque music: a beginner's guide

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JS Bach

Bach's Violin Concertos - Where To Start

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Bach’s Concertos: a guide

Bach cello suirte 2

Bach’s Cello Suites: where to start

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Bach: An Appreciation

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Story of Bach Cantatas

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When Bach Took A Beating

Composer J S Bach

Bach Vs Marchand: The Duel That Never Was

Bach News

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Bach pancake

Someone made an impossibly well-sculpted J.S. Bach pancake and we are mightily impressed

Huge xylophone plays Bach

Giant handmade xylophone plays Bach in the depths of a serene Japanese forest

György and Márta Kurtág Bach duet

This 90-year old couple play Bach together and it will bring tears to your eyes

Bach Music

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Apple apologises for new iPad advert after internet backlash, including brilliant Bach parody.

Apple apologises for piano-crushing advert – after brilliant Bach parody

bach cantata tim mead

This Bach cantata is so beautiful it's basically from another planet

Classical music is speeding up, according to a study using the works of J.S. Bach

New study into performances of Bach reveals classical music is speeding up

Bach Album Reviews

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New releases 13th July

New releases: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Bach and Maxim Rysanov plays Schubert

album reviews 27th march

New releases: John Williams & Steven Spielberg - The Ultimate Collection and Elgar & Tchaikovsky - Cello Works

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Buchbinder Bach Partitas

J.S. Bach: English Suite No.3/Partitas Nos.1 & 2 - Rudolf Buchbinder