When singing a round, a mysterious phenomenon occurs. One voice begins the melody, and others follow with a delay. Even as the melodies and lyrics diverge, they sound harmonious, growing richer with ...

1722, Köthen. In a palace music room, Bach carefully tunes a harpsichord. The result is a revolutionary approach to sound, ...

Soloists and conductor Wouter Dekoninck perform cantatas by Bach, Buxtehude and Bruhns.

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

It was a good year for Messiahs and an equally good one for the “classically-related" repertoire. Piffaro: The Renaissance Band Drive the Cold Winter Away: A Renaissance Christmas Celebration Self ...

Talking, debating and listening are skills we can all learn, particularly in the light of current global conflicts. The ...

Google celebrated the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach on Thursday, with its first-ever A.I.-powered homepage doodle. The creation, released on Bach’s birthday, enables users to try their hand ...

Summer is the time of family reunions. The big Bach family and had big family reunions, full of fun and music. So reported Johan Sebastian Bach’s first biographer, Johann Nickolaus Forkel, writing a ...

The two scores attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, at the Royal Library of Belgium, in Brussels. BIBLIOTHÈQUE ROYALE DE BRUXELLES Statues, cafés, museums and shops, concerts and cakes decorated with ...

How About a Declaration of Charity? Here Come the New Jacobins Audio By Carbonatix Editor’s Note: Ten years ago this week, National Review’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr., passed away. To ...

Fueled by his Lutheran faith, the composer devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary because of his ...