By Jacquelin Carnegie St Thomas Boys' Choir Leipzig has been a city for 1,000 years, managing to beautifully preserve its ...

Joe Miller said he wanted to go out with a bang. And for the longtime choral director of Spoleto Festival USA, who is ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life ...

Biologist Lewis Thomas suggested the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach ... virtuosity – that helped place solo Bach at the heart of Mad Men-era "cool". Hewitt suggests that, as its ...

There is rarely time to write about every cool science paper that comes ... and applying network theory to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, to Spider-Man inspired web-slinging tech and a ...

The hour-and-a-half-long 1741 classical piece by Johann Sebastian Bach has been her go-to concentration hack for decades. “When I have to focus, I always listen to [that] same song and I ...

Baroque German composer Johann Sebastian Bach produced music that is so scrupulously ... “I just found the idea really cool,” says physicist Suman Kulkarni of the University of Pennsylvania ...

None of them earned more than a local reputation and, surprising as it may seem, ‘the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music’, Johann Sebastian himself ... him as his unquestioning religious belief.

Johann Sebastian Bach is considered one of the great composers of Western classical music. Now, researchers are trying to figure out why – by analysing his music with information theory.