Looking for creative inspiration? Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, and Edgar Meyer bring us their inventive take on the music of Johann ...

The modern brass quintet was developed long after Johann Sebastian Bach lived, but brass quintets play arrangements of Bach’s ...

Well, Sarah, a “toccata” (and yes, that’s Italian — from “toccare," to touch) is a musical composition, primarily for ...

Classical music has been proven to effectively treat depression in a breakthrough study. Scientists have used brainwave ...

People didn't just listen to music in a concert, they used it for worship or entertainment. Bach's music was extremely complex and clever and often made up of lots of melodies weaving in and out ...

A brand-new Wallace & Gromit film will feature the despotic penguin ‘Feathers McGraw’, who plays Bach’s famous Toccata and ...

The major video streaming services don’t offer much for classical music lovers. Fortunately, we've rounded up the platforms ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach is considered one of the great ... perception to better match real brain scans of people listening to ...

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 ...

The South African soprano talks about her breakthrough at the Neue Stimmen Competition, which led to membership of the ...