bach, johann sebastian

Chronicles the life, work, and legacy of the inventive musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.

Examines original source documents and city council records about the life and career of eighteenth-century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach and challenges previous biographies that the author maintains distorts the true nature and character of Bach.

Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the prolific eighteenth-century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Discusses the unity among Johann Sebastian Bach's multifaceted compositions, graphic artist M.C. Escher's paradoxical drawings, and the mathematical concepts of Kurt Godel, exploring the Strange Loop phenomenon that occurs in all their work, in which moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system leads right back to the beginning.

Describes the life and career of the early eighteenth-century German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach.

Seventeenth-century composer Johann Sebastian Bach helps young organist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg by giving him lessons and by presenting him with a composition which came to be called the Goldberg Variations. Includes historical notes and an audio CD of Bach's Goldberg Variations.