A pair of chaconnes that were first discovered in the 1990s have now been linked to the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach.
Chaconne in D minor BWV 1178 and Chaconne in G minor BWV 1179 were discovered in 1992, but only recently authenticated.
In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...
The two newly attributed pieces lay overlooked in manuscript form, until researcher Peter Wollny was able to firmly identify ...
Much of the composer’s music will remain forever out of reach, but this week the Bach Archive announced the new attribution of two compositions to its namesake.
Bach and Angela Hewitt, I mean, transfixing and focusing the audience in the Wigmore Hall – at home, too, hopefully, thanks to the livestreaming– through 13 and three-quarter fugues and four canons, ...
JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...
Pianist Konstantin Lifschitz plays two Preludes and Fugues from Book Two of the Well-Tempered Klavier by Bach: the Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, and the Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor.
The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...
Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die ...
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