“When in doubt, cite Grout,” my mother said. She was referring to Donald Jay Grout’s “A History of Western Music.” First published by W.W. Norton in 1960, it has gone through 10 editions and is ...

Wolfram Weimer, the German culture minister; Peter Wollny, director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig; and Burkhard Jung, Leipzig's mayor pictured with the two compositions Jens Schlüter / Bach Archive ...

In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...

Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...

Tonight’s program, A Celebration of Bach, includes several of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works Tonight’s program, A Celebration of Bach, includes several of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most loved and ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — “Bach’s best.” It’s an irresistible concept, but does it mean anything? Such judgments are always fraught when it comes to artistic creations, even more so where the primary purpose ...

A review of Bach against Modernity by Michael Marissen. The experience of listening to great music leads many of us naturally to wonder about the lives of the composers who wrote it. In some cases, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The sprawling organ collection “Clavier-Übung III” is not as widely known as it should be. An excellent new recording could change that. By David ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim ...