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	Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bach's representation of the essence and message of Christianity in his religious music is considered by many to be so powerful and beautiful that in Germany he is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Evangelist.
		Bach was best known during his lifetime as an organist, organ consultant, and composer of organ works both in the traditional German free genres such as preludes, fantasias, and toccatas, and stricter forms such as chorale preludes and fugues.
		Bach's other large work, the Mass in B minor, was assembled by Bach near the end of his life, mostly from pieces composed earlier (such as Cantata 191 and Cantata 12).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bach (4581 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bach’s counterpoint is among the most careful and precise ever conceived; the complexity of it is captivating to composers and non-composers alike, and contains as many as five melodies all harmonizing with each other at once.
		Bach was also extensively engaged later in his life in consulting on various organ projects, testing newly-built organs, and dedicating organs in afternoon recitals.
		Bach's best-known orchestral works are the Brandenburg concertos, so named because he submitted them as a job audition for the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721 (he did not get the job).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach (4581 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography
		Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st l685, the son of Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia.
		Bach did not attempt to justify himself before what must have seemed to him a group of narrow minded and conservative old gentlemen; yet the Council, knowing how skilled his playing was, decided to treat their young and impetuous organist with leniency.
		Bach then became a member of the Mitzler society, a learned society devoted to the promotion of musical science, whose members were expected on joining to display some token of their learning.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxjsbach.html (8769 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Johann Sebatian Bach
		Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in the Thuringian city of Eisenach, now in Germany.
		Bach's father was a string player who was employed not only by the town council but also at the court of Eisenach.
		Bach had also had some arguments with the singers in the church chorale, so he was not completely happy with his situation.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Bach,JS.html (884 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach
		Bach was appointed organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1708, and in the next nine years he became known as a leading organist and composed many of his finest works for the instrument.
		Bach remained as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for the rest of his life, often in conflict with the authorities, but a happy family man and a proud and caring parent.
		Bach's eyesight began to deteriorate during his last year and in March and April 1750 he was twice operated on by the itinerant English oculist John Taylor.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/bachjs.html (1019 words)

	Bach
		Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, into a family that over seven generations produced at least 53 prominent musicians, from Veit Bach to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach.
		Bach's sight began to fail in the last year of his life, and he died on July 28, 1750, after undergoing an unsuccessful eye operation.
		Bach's ability to assess and exploit the media, styles, and genre of his day enabled him to achieve many remarkable transfers of idiom.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Bach.html (1248 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: J.S. Bach Biography
		Most of Bach's working life was spent as a Kapellmeister of various important churches, where he was responsible for the music performed at weekly Sunday services, in addition to such onerous activities as teaching Latin (which he regularly complained about).
		In his own life Bach was known more as a virtuoso organist and improviser and he was considered learned but eccentrically old fashioned as a composer what with his obsessions with arcania such as fugue and ricercar.
		Bach's materials are often made from the most basic stuff of music-scales and arpeggios-and this perhaps partly explains the health and solidity of his music.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/bach_bio.html (991 words)

	The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		Bach and his second wife had 13 children, which with the seven from his first marriage added up to 20.
		Bach spent a lot of time arguing with his employers, particularly when they admitted singers into the choir whom he had rejected as "useless." Bach’s "St. Matthew Passion" made no impression on the authorities who employed him, and they even voted to reduce his salary.
		Bach considered leaving Leipzig for other employment, but in the end stayed on for the remaining twenty years of his life.
	www.bach.org /school_lessons.html (2099 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		In the case of Bach, however, his genius is a combination of a number of simpler qualities, all of which point to that human side.
		Because of the demands of his various employers, Bach was able to create works in a wide variety of genres, providing a breadth of expression not often seen.
		Bach was also a deeply religious man. His personal Bible is filled with annotations and comments, and this depth of feeling finds its way into his sacred music, which often strikes the listener as an intensely personal statement of faith.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/bach.html (833 words)

	J.S.Bach biography - 8notes.com
		Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685 and died in 1750 at the age of 65.
		Bach's mother died when he was still a young boy and his father suddenly died when J. Bach was nine, at which time Bach moved in with his older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who was the organist of Ohrdruf in Germany.
		Bach (1908), by the versatile scholar and organist Albert Schweitzer.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/bach.asp (3032 words)

	Bach, Musicological Font
		Bach is a font for writing essays or compiling databases which need to have some musical symbols in them.
		Instead of using a musical example, many musical symbols are embedded in sentences; it is often easier and sufficiently informative to quote a specific elements of music, such as pitch, chords or rhythms that are focused upon in the discussion.
		Bach was originally designed for use in a spreadsheet to create a database for manuscript study (see the image left).
	www.music.qub.ac.uk /~tomita/bach-mf.html (899 words)

	NPR : The Passions of Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		J.S. Bach is shown at the approximate age of 30 in this unauthenticated portrait believed to have been painted by Johann Ernst Rentsch.
		Indeed, it's important to remember that the emotions that find their expression in religion, or in religious texts and musical settings, are but variants of the feelings common to all people: love, longing, fear, devotion, peace, excitement, expectation, comfort, joy, and so forth.
		Staring out from this portrait is a young Bach, a handsome Bach, a dashing, intense man. I felt, as soon as I saw this portrait, that it offered a key to understanding both the man and the music.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/mar/bach (641 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wolff has excavated contemporary documents, giving remarkable detail on Bach's earnings and on the disposition of his manuscripts after his death to the various members of his multitudinous family; also included are charming examples of the musician's youthful zeal, such as his journey, 250 miles on foot, to see and hear the admired organist/composer Buxtehude.
		Bach refused to divorce theory from practice, so his collections of music like the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Art of the Fugue served to show how a particular form of music (e.g., the keyboard or the fugue) could be applied in just about any combination imaginable.
		For example, we know that nearly all of Bach's solo and multiple piano concerti have their roots in previous concerti, but little attention is paid as to why Bach chose to transcribe to piano(harpsichord), why he selected the works he did, and whether there is a distinct method/pattern to Bach's transcriptions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322564?v=glance (3792 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.C. Bach
		Bach and the youngest to live to maturity, Johann Christian received his early musical training from his father, than whom music has spawned no greater genius.
		Until his health failed, he was the co-organizer (with Carl Abel) of an acclaimed series of London concerts that ran from 1764 to 1781.
		Bach departed from the musical style of his father and older brothers, ranticipating and indeed contributing to the development of the so-called "classical" era.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/bachjc.html (506 words)

	American Bach Soloists - Jeffrey Thomas, music Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We are now moving into the third year of our "Bach Cycle" which represents our commitment to program works by the greatest master of the Baroque era.
		One program in particular will celebrate some of the finest music from two legendary composers of the Baroque: Bach’s Orchestral Suites will be paired with some of Handel’s most stunning vocal works.
		Over the years we have worked hard to provide for you one place where you can hear the finest performances of Bach and his contemporaries, as well as choral masterpieces, and Summer Evenings of Chamber Music performed by a roster of artists that have been heralded as a "who's who" of the early music world.
	www.americanbach.org (378 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.S. Bach
		Bach is considered by many to have been the greatest composer in the history of western music.
		Bach's main achievement lies in his synthesis and advanced development of the primary contrapuntal idiom of the late Baroque, and in the basic tunefullness of his thematic material.
		Bach is also known for the numerical symbolism and mathematical exactitude which many people have found in his music – for this, he is often regarded as one of the pinnacle geniuses of western civilization, even by those who are not normally involved with music.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/bachjs.html (3086 words)

	San Francisco Bach Choir
		The San Francisco Bach Choir announces the release of its most recent CD recording, Ceremonies and Celebrations.
		Babbitt, the choir has expanded its programming focus, specializing not only in Bach, but in all the music from the rich German choral tradition spanning from the late 16th through the 18th centuries.
		Concerts include the great masterworks as well as rare literature and feature period performance practices, baroque-specialist soloists, and a fine baroque orchestra and instrumental consort whose membership is drawn from a roster of internationally known artists.
	www.sfbach.org (459 words)

	The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		In honor of the 321st anniversary of Bach’s birthday, we present an all-Bach instrumental program by the world-renowned Bach Collegium and a pre-concert dialogue between conductors Masaaki Suzuki and Greg Funfgeld.
		Founded in 1898, The Bach Choir gave the first complete performances in the United States of The Mass in B Minor and The Christmas Oratorio.
		The 95 volunteer members sing with the dedication and enthusiasm of The Bach Choir of a century ago, but today’s performances, featuring the finely-honed vocal ensemble, a fully professional orchestra, and world-renowned soloists, reveal a new level of musicianship and understanding of Bach’s choral universe.
	www.bach.org (232 words)

	Bach Week Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A rite of spring in Chicago, Bach Week Festival marries the best of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries - and a few surprises each season - with the Midwest's finest classical musicians.
		The Bach Week Festival offers the legendary and familiar, alongside some seldom heard or unusual works of the Baroque era, performed by the Chicago area's most celebrated musicians and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus.
		Highlights of the 2006 Bach Week Festival will be the Midwest - and possibly U.S. - premiere of a newly discovered Bach aria, sung by soprano Patrice Michaels.
	www.bachweek.org (260 words)

	J. S. Bach and the Bach Recordings and Bach Cantatas Mailing Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are so many different recordings of Bach's works, and the year 2000 will see many new ones, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his death.
		This mailing list is similar to the Bach Recordings mailing list, but the goal here is to discuss favorite and recently released recordings of early music.
		Many people feel that Bach's greatest music is found in the more than 200 cantatas he wrote during his career.
	www.mcelhearn.com /bach.html (310 words)

	Bach Flower Essences - www.bachflower.com
		Bach Flower Essences has been used all over the world since the 1930s.
		The Bach Flower Essences are 100% safe and natural and work in conjunction with herbs, homeopathy and medications.
		Bach and Bach Flower Essences are trademark of Bach Flower Remedies Ltd, Oxfordshire, England
	www.bachflower.com (164 words)

	Web Sites with Bach Information
		This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new series of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers.
		The reference source for info on this important builder who was a close friend of and worked extensively with J.S. Bach.
		Their SONY Classical Celebrates Bach is a lovely site celebrating the 250th anniversary of Bach's death.
	www.jsbach.org /web.html (959 words)

	Carmel Bach Festival \| Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Founded in 1935 and now enjoying its 68th season, the Carmel Bach Festival has built an international reputation in presenting the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and his musical heirs on period instruments.
		The Carmel Bach Festival began as a three-day festival of concerts at the Sunset School Auditorium and the Carmel Mission Basilica.
		Festival attendees are also invited to enjoy a variety of free lectures, family concerts, and other complimentary events.
	www.bachfestival.com (129 words)

	Bach Festival of Philadelphia - Calendar 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Father Duggan’s unique mission is to “Play Bach,” and he regularly performs the entire keyboard corpus in a series of concerts.
		Bach cantatas, including “Darzu is erschienen der Sohn Gottes,” BWV 40.
		The Bach Festival is collaborating with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Philadelphia Museum of Art to present the great Dutch cellist, Anner Bylsma, acclaimed world-wide especially for his interpretation of Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello (Pro Arte).
	www.bach-fest.org /concerts2002.htm (326 words)

	Dr Edward Bach Centre bach Flower flower Remedies remedies Essences essences courses books education training
		Mount Vernon was the home and workplace of Dr Bach in the last years of his life, when he completed his research into the flower remedies that still bear his name.
		Making mother tinctures is of course the most important thing the trustees and helpers at the Bach Centre do.
		The Centre is open to visitors, and in everything we do we aim to maintain the simplicity and purity of Dr Bach's work, in the way he intended.
	www.bachcentre.com (242 words)

	Welcome to BachBrass.com
		Vincent Bach, in combining his unique talents as both a musician and an engineer, created brass instruments which remain the sound choice of artists worldwide.
		Not one to be discouraged by an initial slow sales response, Vincent changed the ad headline to read “How To Become A Wizard On The Cornet Without Practicing,” to which he received over $500 in orders during the first seven days.
		However, a strong demand remained for Bach instruments and mouthpieces due to their superior design, high quality, and prompt service.
	www.bachbrass.com (549 words)

	The Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach Web Site
		There will be performances of P.D.Q. Bach: The Vegas Years in Arkansas and Los Angeles and, by either popular demand or an amazing coincidence, even a concert in Las Vegas this season.
		In fact, in both cases, the concerts are just beyond the coasts, across the water, on the next body of land: Ottawa, Ontario, just north of the North Coast, and Amelia Island, just off the East Coast of Florida, which is part of the South Coast of America.
		This opera in one irrevocable act is based on a dream that P.D.Q. Bach had the night of December 4, 1791, the night that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died and Antonio Salieri didn’t.
	www.schickele.com (2121 words)

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