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Learn about the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach, a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific and diverse compositions across various instruments and forms, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, and the St Matthew Passion.
Find over 1,000 known works by Bach, including cantatas, motets, masses, oratorios, songs and arias, organ and keyboard pieces, and more. Learn about the history and sources of Bach's catalogues and collections, such as BWV, BGA, and NBG.
Learn about Johann Sebastian Bach's three violin concertos, BWV 1041–1043, and his transcriptions of concertos by other composers for organ and harpsichord. Explore the concerto genre in Bach's early and later works, and its influence on his vocal compositions.
Learn about the six instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in the Baroque era and dedicated to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Find out the history, instrumentation, and performance of the Brandenburg Concertos.
The St Matthew Passion is a sacred oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach based on the Gospel of Matthew. It was first performed on Good Friday 1727 in Leipzig and has been revised and performed many times since then.
Find out the BWV numbers, dates, keys, sources and editions of Bach's songs and arias, including the Quodlibet. Most of them are spiritual hymn settings, but some are secular or pasticcio compositions.
St John Passion is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on the Gospel of John. It was first performed on Good Friday in 1724 and revised several times, with different numbers and instruments.
Bach's earliest cantatas are church cantatas, although his early Wedding Quodlibet is sometimes grouped with the secular cantatas. [11] [12] The oldest extant secular cantata is from his Weimar period where he composed the Hunting Cantata (BWV 208, first version) for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels on 23 February 1713.