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 ...
In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...
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 ...
Guardian journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Richter Ensemble (Passacaille) The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with ...
Like cheese and crackers, music and architecture is a natural pairing. Last November, Steven Holl debuted his ballet, Tesseracts of Time. This year is shaping up to be a promising one for synergy ...
Bach’s nine-minute-long composition is one of the best-known pieces for organ – but it also sounds super-eerie on glass harp. This musician – Robert Tiso on YouTube – has worked out how to play Bach’s ...
“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 ...
There was a time when scholarship was not even certain what instrument or combination thereof the Art of the Fugue was written for, or if it wasn’t written for any specific instrument at all and a ...
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