Music Worcester presents a Bach Birthday Bash weekend in Mechanics Hall March 21-23 to celebrate J.S. Bach's 340th birthday.

J. S. Bach’s most famous arias, “Schafe könne sicher weiden” (Sheep may safely graze) projects safety for the governed secured by enlightened leadership.

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

Three days after Johann Sebastian Bach died from a stroke in July 1750, his body was laid in an oak coffin and hauled to a cemetery outside the city walls of Leipzig, Germany. Like many burials back ...

Last May, as the final serene measures of the “Dona nobis pacem” sounded in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, the ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...