Listening to Bach’s ‘reassuring’ music in television commercials makes us spend more according to a study by musicologist Peter Kupfer. Listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in ...

Throughout musical history, musicians and composers have revered Bach. From Debussy who called him "a benevolent god", to Brahms who advocated studying Bach "to find everything". From Mahler who ...

Study participants were played both new and memorised musical pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach A study has revealed that older people are able to remember familiar pieces of music as well as young ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was music's most sublime creative genius. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Era. Johann Sebastian Bach was ...

Below is a timeline of the Western Europe musical periods which includes the point in time that Bach was actively composing. The harpsichord is a keyboard instrument where the strings are plucked ...

Discover the story behind Bach’s ‘St Matthew Passion’ widely regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of classical sacred music. There had already been a long history of Passion music ...