Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach ... for many people, that simply means his heavenly music. For nearly 333 years. Johann Sebastian Bach ... specifically, his life, his family, and his work: That is meanwhile, in the age of Internet 3.0, so much more. Today, there is in addition an entertainment offering that has only recently begun to extend beyond Bach’s music and the many Bach biographies and short Bach short biographies..

Johann Sebastian Bach in the Ulm Minster, Germany..

And … when it comes to Bach and entertainment, my Bach portal – right here – is always your best bet. Of course, you can listen to the most popular Bach works, get book recommendations, and explore 170 fascinating Bach stamps..

There are a total of eight fascinating short biographies. They come in various lengths: some to read, some to listen to, and some to watch. There are the so-called Bach quotes, and very soon there will be a full 500 Bach FAQs ... many for kids, and fascinating ones for fans. I’m presenting you hundreds of pictures. And even a real Johann Sebastian Bach animated film..

I’ve also included my recommendations for other Bach-related websites. For example, the one from the Bach Archive in Leipzig. Then there’s the particularly fascinating website of the Bach House in Eisenach, which I highly recommend visiting. There’s the site about the smallest Bach-related town, Dornheim, and the one for the Bachwelt Weimar project (… where there’s still no Bach House today). Plus many, many more. There are curious, exciting, funny, and astonishing things to discover..

By the way: In France, Johann Sebastian Bach is called Jean-Sébastien Bach, and in Spanish-speaking countries, he is Juan Sebastian Bach. In Albania, he’s even spelled “Bah” on a postage stamp – explicitly without the “ c ” – so that it sounds right when pronounced. But anyway: Whether Jean, Juan, or Johann ... he is, was, and will certainly remain one of the most significant musicians of all time: Johann Sebastian Bach..

Johann Sebastian Bach – Welcome to the Internet Portal About the Master..

Welcome to the cross-media project Bach on Bach and its German-language sister site Bach über Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach and genealogy: These are two topics … and not just one. My Bach portal is, of course, primarily about the most famous Thomas Cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach. But secondly, much of the content also relates to genealogy. In general … and also specifically regarding the genealogy of this extraordinary family from Thuringia. We’ll even help you if you’re researching whether you’re related to Bach..

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Johann Sebastian Bach ... How and Where Do You Find Everything, When You Return?..

I’m sure this has happened to you before: You discover something exciting on a website. And when you come back sometime later, what you once found is so well “hidden.” So well, in fact, that you can hardly find it again. And since the subject of “Johann Sebastian Bach” is already complicated enough, this website doesn’t want to make things any more difficult. That’s why it’s very simple here: The navigation is to the left of this section. That’s right ... just like on many websites. There are many categories there, and they contain exactly what their names suggest. Consistent..

With one exception, however: Anything you don’t find in these many sections can be found under the main section “Johann Sebastian Bach”. It’s the third one from the top. There you’ll find eight short biographies, the Johann Sebastian Bach biography video, and the Johann Sebastian Bach profile. You’ll also find the Bach cities and Bach locations there: five, or eight, or twelve, or thirty-three. This section also lists all the choirs, orchestras, and associations around the world that were founded in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach. The page for the animated film is there. You’ll also find the so-called “Origin” (... the Necrology ... written by Johann Sebastian Bach himself)..

Along with this, I present the only surviving personal – that is, private – letter that Johann Sebastian Bach ever wrote: He sent it from Leipzig to his school friend Georg Erdmann in Gdańsk. In addition, in this chapter I’ve searched for and found the most fascinating Johann Sebastian Bach websites in the world for you. You’ll also learn why you can even sing “Bach.” Just B-A-C-H, but not Johann Sebastian. And that’s only in German-speaking countries..

My MJSBM: The Manual for Your Johann Sebastian Bach Website..

This website, dedicated to one of the most significant musicians and composers of all time, has been created for a wide range of people interested in the topic of “Johann Sebastian Bach.” And so my little “user guide” might just come in handy at exactly the right moment. After all, it takes you straight to the specific information that interests you most about the subject. Welcome, whether you’re already a fan of the Thomas Cantor, already love the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, or simply want to learn more about him..

Schoolchildren, college students, and kids are also especially welcome here: >These pages have been designed specifically with them in mind. Not just to learn about the master, but to have fun doing so. Of course, as the “creator” of this site, I’m also delighted to welcome everyone who has found this site – so to speak – through his music. For example, fans who have already read a “real” biography in book form. And who ultimately – beyond simply reading the biography – want to have fun with Johann Sebastian Bach. With this project of mine, you can also plan trips: to the “Land of the Bache.” They were actually called “Bache” in the past, not “Bachs” as they are today, and certainly not “Bäche.” The term “Land of the Bache” is, of course, something I “made up.”

But this site is also perfect for anyone who wants to discover Johann Sebastian Bach’s music for the first time. That’s because the selection of his works on this website—which you can listen to in excerpts and experience alongside the visual themes I’ve curated—is not my subjective selection. Rather, it is an objective reflection of many millions of Google and YouTube search results. Are you in the mood for a Bach video or a Bach music video?..

But now let’s turn to the user manual. Just like this fourth section on page 1 and the two preceding it, all the other sections are also organized according to the same pattern. First, there is always general information on the topic. This is a suggestion for the best reading and user experience. Or there are tips on how to “get the most out of” a section of the website..

So the introductory text always includes a few lines that summarize the topic and “set the stage.” To make sure this doesn’t annoy some readers, there are always a few link shortcuts. These will take you directly to the section you’re looking for..

This introductory text to the chapter is primarily intended for visitors who want to enjoy plenty of entertainment with a bit of leisure and plenty of time. For visitors who actually look at the pictures. And for those who can get excited about the short captions ... and who want that. The “link shortcuts,” on the other hand, are intended for those who are usually “in a hurry online.” For all those who like to get straight to the point... and do so quickly, too. So it’s now your decision whether you want to learn more about Johann Sebastian Bach right now. If so, you might want to stop reading here and click on whatever interests you in the navigation bar at the top center, on the left..

Or, to put it another way: You’re having fun with this – my philosophy – and this – my system – and you’re simply reading on. Of course, you’ll be in the know later on. But by now you also know how to get things done “quickly.” For some who have found this – my website – it’s also meant to be a little “adventure playground.” An exciting Johann Sebastian Bach amusement park, so to speak. Digital, of course..

On this, my website, there are many stories. And stories about the stories. When you conduct research on Johann Sebastian Bach, as we do – and this will continue for a long time to come – you come across things that are unbelievable, astonishing, new, contradictory, comical, funny, and even strange. Here you’ll find the results, the discoveries, the insights, and the contradictions related to the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. But not only that. Because behind these discoveries lie my stories as well ... namely, those of the two of us, my wife and me. They involve new acquaintances, new friendships, and the discovery of cousins and other relatives. It’s almost impossible to find a name for their family relationship ... we’re that distant..

The “hunt” for historical prints, etchings, paintings, engravings, postcards, sheet music, books, and pictures. It’s exciting, and we both call the trophies we find “treasures.” Charming errors on prints and documents delight us. When you discover sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach on stamps featuring the jungle doctor Albert Schweitzer, you’re fascinated. And when you’ve finally pieced it all together and realized just how far ahead Johann Sebastian Bach’s family is as the world’s most significant and largest family of musicians, it’s an indescribable experience. It’s as if you’d personally discovered the tips of the Pyramids of Giza in the desert sand ... albeit on a much, much smaller scale. And with a smile. And all of this applies equally to both the number and the significance of the many discoveries.

Now you have another choice: To get to Johann Sebastian Bach, go to the top left (... the section in the navigation bar with the eleven topics ... and then to the individual sections). Or you can keep reading here. And in doing so, build even more anticipation for the respective focal points. Because now you’ll learn more about the goals of my project: You’ll get an overview of what this portal has to offer. An example? In 2011, The New York Times named Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest composer of all time.

A Bach video: the short biography about Johann Sebastian Bach. Get a quick taste – instead of reading – of where the star lived and worked. A professional narrator reads the text. You’ll hear music by Johann Sebastian Bach. And that makes it really entertaining. It’s all over in nine minutes, and you’ll have a good overview ... of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life.

The video about Johann Sebastian Bach’s works and music. 33 pieces in five minutes? We can easily pull that off here. However, this “musical introduction” is really only intended for kids and for visitors who previously thought Bach existed only as flower essences and in connection with Dr. Edward Bach. True lovers of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music might want to skip ( ! ) these five minutes. But you already know what the court compositeur composed. And where you can find it in the highest musical quality: certainly not from me..

The Truly So Different Johann Sebastian Bach Website..

In the picture it's a painting of Johann Sebastian Bach's face in greyish shades. Over it two note lines are crossing from left to right and from upper end of the picture to the lower end.

B-A-C-H: You can actually play it and sing it. But not everywhere in the world ... only in German-speaking countries. Try it with the names Beethoven or with the Bach enthusiast and initiator of the “Bach Renaissance,” Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It works with Johann Sebastian Bach’s last name. But with his first names … it doesn’t work..

This website about Johann Sebastian Bach and his family of musicians is intentionally designed to be a little different. Different from all the other websites about the composer that already exist here and there on the internet. For example, it offers not just one short biography, but several, including an ultra-short one. And one that isn’t meant to be read. Of course, we shouldn’t forget to mention the “profile.”..

You won't find just twenty Bach stamps. There are 170 of them. Since 1926. There are also Bach images, Bach videos, and Bach music videos. Plus, there are Bach quotes and the FAQs about Johann Sebastian Bach and his family..

Of course, the Kapellmeister’s (... band leaders) music is included in the offer. And you’ll learn about the BWV. After reading this, you’ll also know the secret behind B-A-C-H. You’ll soon find out what’s in the letter to Georg Erdmann. And, in general ... who Georg Erdmann was..

Wehave paved the way for you to the Bach House Experience in Eisenach, the Bach Archive in Leipzig, the Bach City of Weimar, Bach’s ancestral home of Wechmar, and Bach monuments around the world. Bach books play a major role on this website … Bach books in every category: biographies, Bach for children, and novels about Bach. Not that we’re going to introduce you to all 20,000 books that have ever been written and published on the subject. Nor the more than 58,000 additional articles, doctoral dissertations, online publications, and other works that are simply not books. Advertisement begins. No, comparatively speaking, the roughly 25 current books available today about the master are actually already “more than enough” to create a certain sense of confusion. I’ve selected 25 “Bach books” for you. And I’ll introduce them to you. If you’d like to explore the selection yourself: The Mission’s partner publisher, jpc—Europe’s largest music retailer—lists 800 such Bach books. That is absolutely important, if you are especially interested in subjects, where there are only German books. Click here to jpc.

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You see a steel engraving of the Bach monument in Eisenach. It's only grey colors on white background with a mirror.

Johann Sebastian Bach plus angel. This is a historical steel engraving. This monument dedicated to Bach stands in Eisenach. To the right of the Bach House and next to the Bach Museum.

Music, Work and Life of Composer Johann Sebastian Bach from Eisenach, Thuringia..

Father of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Ambrosius Bach is sitting at a table. It's an oil painting with a gold frame. In the window behind you see Wartburg Castle. Johann Ambrosius Bach has long hair and looks to you.

Johann Sebastian's father: Johann Ambrosius Bach. In the background, you can see the impressive Wartburg above the birthplace of our master: the dreamlike location in Thuringia, the Bach city of Eisenach. © Info..

Truly everything about Johann Sebastian Bach is complicated. Every aspect is challenging. This, my project, is based on my desire at the time to find my own way into this subject matter. At a time when I began to take an interest in Bach the composer, the Kapellmeister, the Thomas Cantor, and the musician from Eisenach, as well as in his family. Shortly thereafter, I also became interested in his work, his music, and his life..

And what came out of it? Interest, no, better yet: a great interest in sharing my insights also with others: through this Johann Sebastian Bach website, which you’ve stumbled upon. Since I’m a fan of entertainment, this project naturally sparked my desire to add exciting illustrations to the information. Simply to lighten up the text. What could be better than great photos of the cities and places associated with Bach, stamps featuring Johann Sebastian Bach, and lots and lots of historical, authentic material, which, of course, you first have to search for and then actually find?! Images of books, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, and steel engravings. Scans of ancient postcards, works of art, and paintings that are hundreds of years old. And what’s so challenging about that?..

Just to catalog the musical works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach Society was founded long ago. Around 130 years ago. After completing this initial cataloging, it dissolved again, according to its bylaws. In the same year, namely in 1900, the New Bach Society was founded..

There is still disagreement today about the Bach family tree. And if you’d like to add even a little confusion to your short biography about Bach, then why not take a quick look over there..

Do you know of a guide to Bach’s music? How to “tackle” Bach? How to approach him? How to find your way to him? No? That’s what I thought. Because if such a thing had existed, I would have been thrilled: a guide to Johann Sebastian Bach. There is so much that has already been discovered about Bach and regarding Bach. And that has since been “lost” again. Or is in the process of being lost again. Or is simply hidden away somewhere in digital form. Waiting for someone to rediscover it in the vast expanse of the internet ... by chance or through a tip from an expert source. As I mentioned, everything related to Johann Sebastian Bach is particularly complicated..

It is an all red biography about Johann Sebastian Bach. It's historic. The font is black and it is an old font. It tells, the author is Carl Flemming. The Title is Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach by weight: The heaviest Bach book weighs 2.4 kilograms. The smallest work weighs a mere 61 grams. What you see here, however, is neither the lightest nor the heaviest of all Johann Sebastian Bach books. It is, however, the reddest of them all..

Books About Johann Sebastian Bach..

You see a collection of 10 Bach books facing the viewer in two rows in front of white background. At the bottom of the picture there is a mirror. All books are about Johann Sebastian Bach and the pic is colorful.

With Johann Sebastian Bach books, you're spoiled for choice ... even if you limit yourself to just the new publications from the last fifteen years. Here you can decide again whether you'd like to browse through the 800 Bach books available from our partner publisher, jpc ... or stick with one of our 25 recommendations. The book above, is my personal best suggestion, to add it to a biography, to "jump right into the life of the master's back then..

Anyone looking for a book on Johann Sebastian Bach will quickly realize that you are “spoiled for choice” when it comes to this topic. After all, there aren’t just dozens of books on Bach ... there are hundreds. Well … most of them are no longer up to date. And many are only available used or through antiquarian bookstores. But there are still about fifty to a hundred books from which you can choose, all hot off the press. There isn’t just one Bach biography. No, there are ten or twenty to choose from: These include the historically significant biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach, which are constantly being reprinted. Then, every year, brand-new Bach books on a wide variety of topics are added to the selection. There are well-known and lesser-known authors. Books on Johann Sebastian Bach are written by specialists and scholars, as well as by newcomers who, as of today, are still writing without having made a name for themselves. They come from the pens of “real” writers and those who aspire to become writers. There are simply ... Bach books and more Bach books on this exceptional musician from Eisenach: Johann Sebastian Bach. Sure, all that is true when it comes to German reading. However, the deeper you go into your J.S. Bach adventure, you might be willing to dig through subjects not in your mother language, such as music books or genealogy reading..

A Johann Sebastian Bach book. The most scientific up-to-date biography about Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff. Aside of the wording on the book there is the painting of Elias Gottlob Haußmann on the cover.

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Three Bach genealogy books are hovering in front of white background and a mirror on the bottom. The left book is purple, the book in the middle is black/white and the right is light blue, all about the genealogy of the Johann Sebastian Bach Familily.

There are three books alone that are “purely and solely” dedicated to the genealogy of the musical family centered around Johann Sebastian Bach. The genealogical research conducted by my wife and me is based on these three “bibles of Bach genealogy.” But you will discover that we have already uncovered genealogical secrets that go far beyond their contents. Nevertheless, these three authors – or rather, scholars – deserve our utmost respect. Without their work, our genealogical contribution – as well as the compilation and continuation of the data collection surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach for you would have been completely impossible. The two books on the left are practically nowhere to be found anymore, not even used. But the one on the right: There are still a few copies available from the Renate Bach Publishing House.

Did I go through 20,000 books among the 78,000 written works and publications on Johann Sebastian Bach for you? Of course not. Did you really think we did? No, I searched through the Bach books published over the last fifty years for you. And i have divided them into “the wheat and the chaff.”..

Really? No ... once again, I didn’t do that. I selected them based on my own personal taste. The ones I’m not presenting to you here are, for the most part, also excellent. How can I presume to call the ones I didn’t select “chaff”? They aren’t. It’s just that they’re less to my taste … than the ones I’m presenting to you now. And for those, you’ll also get a brief literary note ... not written by me, but the official description … that, at least. Bach biographies, Bach travel books, Bach novels, Bach books for children. And some Bach books … that you’d hardly imagine on this topic: I’ve compiled them for you. And in the coming years, I’ll expand this selection for you to include every new release related to Johann Sebastian Bach.

It's a book about "The two wives of Johann Sebastian Bach", which is the title in German. The cover is a historic painting, brownish. It's by Johannes Ninck. Bach is sitting in front of his piano and a lady is behind him.

There are a whopping 20,000 books about Johann Sebastian Bach in just 250 years? Sure. And are they all perfectly cataloged? Yes, for many, many years by Yo Tomita, Professor Yo Tomita. You don’t know him? Not yet. By the way, he handed this “job” over to the Bach Archive Leipzig in 2012.

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A Funny Maker..

I’m a funny maker. And that’s what Johann Sebastian Bach’s great-grandfather was called, too. His name was Hans, the minstrel. He wasn’t what we’d call a comedian today. Neither am I. Actually, there isn’t really a modern equivalent for the historical term “funny maker” anymore.

“Joker,” perhaps. Or “clown.” But neither of those terms is really cool anymore, either. Here on my Johann Sebastian Bach website, I’m a little silly from time to time ... rarely more than that. But that’s just who I am. I enjoy it. And I hope you enjoy it, too. So, let’s continue with our “user manual.” Even if some hardcore surfers criticize this as a “mental crutch”... but then why are you still here? Seriously: Please forgive me for my many, many silly antics. I’m just a funny maker. At the beginning of the last century, people would have called me a prankster. Today, I am and will remain ... myself.

Fot the English speaking world: No it's not a grammer mistake, I don't mean "fun maker". The old German word is a combination of an adjective and a noun. And I translated this directly into English. That's ... me, too..

All in all, this project is not a quick fix. But it’s always “different.” It needs ... and wants ... to take up your time. It aims to be a “Bach adventure playground.” And it simply requires your leisure. On top of that, it doesn’t come across as “Baroque” either. Just because Johann Sebastian Bach is so beautifully associated with that era. My Bach portal aims to be a little hip. And cool … and modern. Will this Johann Sebastian Bach website and my Bach project achieve that? We’ll see.

It's a photo of Peter Bach, Jr., the author of the website, when he was little, some 7 years old with shorts offering a little girl – same age – to lick my ice cream. It's a black and white photo.

Back then, I used to share my ice cream with her ... today, I share Bach with you. Specifically, my knowledge surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach. By the way, the one on the left didn't turn out to be my wife..

Genealogy in General and the Genealogy of Johann Sebastian Bach in Particular..

In the U.S., people research their ancestors with particular enthusiasm. It’s estimated to be twenty to thirty times more intense than here in Germany. Of course, we “know” where our ancestors came from. Often … from Germany. Or a little to the right or left of that. Not so with our friends across the pond. Americans simply want to know where it all began for their families ... where, very often in Europe, the roots of many emigrants can be found..

It’s really hooked us. My wife and me. Genealogy. A trendy hobby! And for quite some time now, it’s been our favorite pastime. We’ve been interested in it for several decades. But you really have to get “infected” by it. And just like with a common cold, it takes more than just the “genealogy virus”: It’s only when it’s really cold and damp that the viruses – for a cold – have free rein. And what the dreary fall is to a cold, our own age seems to be to genealogy. Fifty, they say – the experts say – is exactly that age when people start researching their family history. Often, though ... it’s just one person in the family. In every generation. And of course there are exceptions: Some people start this pastime as teenagers or shortly thereafter..

On an old photo, black and white, three kids – age around 10 to 12 – are looking to their left. It's two boys and in the middle a girl with curls. The boy on the right has a sailor's costume on. He is my grandpa. Background is grey and shows nothing.

This is also part of the Bach family tree: on the far right is my grandpa, Herbert Bach..

For anyone who, while reading about our adventure with the Bach family of musicians and Johann Sebastian Bach, can imagine researching one's own family, I am laying the groundwork here for such a project. So to speak. Not with the same depth and expertise as when discussing Johann Sebastian Bach and his clan. No, this is more of an introduction to the topic for the beginners among you. And a source of inspiration for those who have already given it some thought. That said, you can never really know whether there might not be something completely new on my pages, even for an advanced enthusiast. Perhaps a new perspective, an idea, a different approach. In any case, nothing here would be possible without the expertise of specialists, whom I naturally consulted for you and intend to consult again and again in the coming years.

There’s one thing, however, that I simply can’t avoid: raising your awareness right here and now: If – but only if – you come across roots in the U.S. during your research, just as my wife and I did ... then, yes, then it will be like “rummaging through a medieval treasure chest” for you. For real—with gold and jewels, emeralds, and pearl necklaces. Why is that? Read on below the picture..

A young lady in America is leaning at an old classic car on a historic brownish photo. Behind the car there is a house visible. She has her hands in her trouser pockets. Plus she has a hat on and smiles to the camera.

The Johann Sebastian Bach genealogy in the United States of America: Not a single photograph was destroyed by fire in the United States during World War II..

Do you remember? The factor of 20 to 30. Americans in the U.S. conduct 20 to 30 times more research into their own ancestors than Germans do … that’s my estimate. And where so much research is done, an enormous amount is discovered. Above all, there are many historical images. There are also newspaper articles over 100 years old. Plus ancient oral traditions. Letters from earlier decades – from the last two centuries – are available “by the ton.” Plus detailed, lengthy obituaries. And all these documents are in a completely different league from what can be found here in Germany, both in terms of variety and quantity. How can I get this across? Maybe it’s like opening Kinder eggs. You don’t know what Kinder eggs are? Please click here..

That’s how it was – and still is – for us today. And the chances that you also have no roots in the U.S. are really not that high, since every family tree keeps branching out more and more. And in many families, at least one branch emigrated. After all, just one branch is enough. Across the “pond,” you’ll encounter Native Americans—perhaps your great-great-great-great-grandfather was a brewery owner. Or another relative, like August Reinhold Bach, drowned in a shipwreck worse than the Titanic. Along the way, you’ll meet people. People who are also passionate about your hobby. You’ll find relatives in the U.S. ... cousins. They’ll send you photos of your relatives and ancestors. And you’ll hear stories ... some of them pages long. That’s where the Native Americans I mentioned come in: real ones, genuine! You’ll read about real fortunes that were made and then lost. You read about your own great-great-grandfather in his original immigration application. You see his handwriting and learn why the authorities had a problem with him specifically. Mine, by the way, once showed up drunk at the immigration office. It’s on record. But all of this isn’t just stories … suddenly it’s your own, very personal story. Simply breathtaking..

The Bach Family of Musicians or Better: The Johann Sebastian Bach Genealogy

In a much too big golden frame there is a very old engraving of a musician visible. He has a strange hairdo and is holding a violin. He is looking very serious.

If you happen to come across him—while browsing through old books, on the internet, or anywhere else—it’s Hans Bach, a minstrel. Not Hans Bach, the minstrel. For genealogists researching Johann Sebastian Bach, this is a difference like that between George Bush and his eldest of four sons, the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Right, or like the difference between “night and day.” © Info.

The genealogy of the Bache. Johann Sebastian Bach, Veit Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and so many more names ... some of which Bach fans are familiar with. It really is a challenge. In fact: Was there ever one Veit … or two, or even three? Johann Christoph, for example, doesn’t even need to be googled. That’s because the most famous Johann Christoph Bach’s name overshadows all the other 16 Johann Christophs. Googling doesn’t work in this case..

“Hans the Minstrel” appears. And you really have to be sharp to notice the difference between him and the portrait of “Hans, a Minstrel.” A minstrel, the minstrel … who’s going to warn us that it’s not the same person? When the Milanese Bach is also the London Bach … and when the Hamburg Bach and the Berlin Bach are one and the same person, then it’s – quite simply – extremely confusing. That’s how it is … the Bach genealogy. Johann Sebastian Bach married a woman “née Bach.” And anyway, everyone seems to have fun giving their children the exact same first names. As if there weren’t any others..

At least the number of Johann Sebastian Bach’s wives is easy to keep track of. There were exactly two of them. Their names were Maria Barbara Bach – her last name was already Bach before the wedding – and the musician Anna Magdalena Bach. That’s right, Anna Magdalena was the one with the little music book. The former was the one of whom there is absolutely no picture. Not a single one! There is also none of the second wife. It’s a long story. Indeed..

The Bach Band: It's a band of seven young people different age, from 25 to 3. In the middle of the background an additional adult is standing with a bass. All persons have instruments in their hands, 6 are sitting, 2 standing. All are relatives of Johann

All eight of them are named Bach. Johann August Reinhold Bach and his sons. The father, Johann August Reinhold, died in the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. 1914. On a voyage from the U.S. to Thuringia. Does this all sound like “Greek to you”? No problem ... because now there’s “Bach on Bach.” Of course, once again: with a smile. Here, if you’re interested, you’ll learn how Johann August Reinhold and our Johann Sebastian Bach were related..

It's a copy of a whole newspaper page from 1914 with a big headline about the sunken Empress of Ireland. The headline is large and the newspaper's name is "The Atlanta Constitution".

Man, mouse and the whole Bach genealogy (... this would be the translation "word by word," as we say it in German. The correct translation for you people is that "the ship sank with all hands"). Anyway ... only few families lost all their genealogy documents on a cruise. Johann August Reinhold's daughter survived. Johann August Reinhold did not. In addition, his Bach genealogy of this tribe was lost, too. You could not make copies back then. We have a lovely and very close relationship with Johann August Reinhold's descendants today..

It's a breathtaking nowadays oil painting: A cruise ship, lower part black, upper part white and yellow chimneys. You see smoke coming out of both chimneys and the ship mirrors in the sea.

The Empress of Ireland. Painted excellently by Briana Bach-Hertzog, who is living in Virginia, USA today. She painted the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach for my project too, which decorates page one of this website in the upper left corner. The artistic genes are conserved through the centuries, without any doubt. © Briana Bach-Hertzog..

It's a whole newspaper front page about the accident of the "Empress of Ireland". The newspaper is the front page of the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle. It tells 954 people are dead.

Sunk on the eve of World War I: The ship and his history. Overshadowed by the beginning of the fights in Europe, almost nobody remembers this catastrophe, when more passengers died than in the sinking of the Titanic. For us, this is a fascinating document on a trip back in time to the era of Johann Sebastian Bach..

This Bach on Bach project as a whole is meant to be exciting ... with all its parts and sections. I want you to find many things here that you won’t find exactly the same way anywhere else. That’s why I’m doing some things differently. A proper biography of Johann Sebastian Bach … others can do that better. Here on Bach on Bach, you’ll find Johann Sebastian’s life story presented in a different form than in the hundreds of publications of recent years: shorter? Yes. More flowery? Also. With pictures? Of course. Easy to digest? Always a pleasure. And all in various lengths, too: That’s what makes it special. And each short biography is illustrated in a completely different way. “Johann Sebastian Bach”: In this section (… in the navigation bar) and under “Biography,” you’ll also find a mini-biography video, as well as the very first biography of Bach from 1750. That’s the Necrology. Actually … it’s the first short biography..

Then there’s the music of Johann Sebastian Bach: I’ve searched for and found 33 of the most popular and well-known works for you. And you can listen to these works. All 33 of them in exactly 333 seconds, or each one for up to three minutes. The “Best of Bach,” so to speak … but not according to my taste. Rather, according to the tastes of Bach fans worldwide..

But there’s also plenty to discover on this, my own website. This Johann Sebastian Bach website certainly has a clear layout. But it’s not something you can “consume” in ten minutes. Nor is that its intention. I’d like to inspire you. Feel free to expect the unexpected … but never anything too serious. One thing, though: You can definitely expect quality. Everywhere: with the images, reproductions, genealogy, research, presentation, short biographies, my “profile,” and also with many short videos. I’ve taken – and continue to take – a lot of time to continuously optimize that quality, even today. For your enjoyment … and mine as well..

On an historic black and white but brownish photo you see a shop with a sign that tells the owner's name is Bach with a small miniature truck in front of the shop on the road. Two people are sitting.

Whether in the U.S., the Netherlands, or Germany ... Bach and music: They’ve always been a perfect match, and they still are today. It’s fascinating to see how many of the descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach’s great-great-grandfather, Veit Bach, are still making music today ... and even earning a living from it. Or, beyond music, are simply creative in other ways..

The Johann Sebastian Bach Music (1)..

It's an illustration of a grayish Bach face plus a 3-D-music.note which is as high as the portait. All that is on white background and there is a mirror at the bottom of the illustration.

What would a Bach website be without Bach’s music? In the “Bach Works + Music” section, you won’t find Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beautiful works. Instead, you’ll discover his most popular and best-known ones. According to Google and YouTube. © Info.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed a huge amount of music. A great deal. The master. A true perfectionist, to be sure. The best-known and most popular pieces by Bach are undoubtedly the following: the Well-Tempered Clavier. One piece from this collection is particularly well-known to many people, especially outside Germany. It’s titled Air. Then there’s his Toccata. The Ave Maria (... I know!), the Council Change Cantata, the Coffee Cantata, and the Peasants’ Cantata. But not the Beer Cantata. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, the French Suites, the Christmas Oratorio, the Easter Oratorio, and so on … He wrote and composed so much that later generations compiled a vast catalog of Bach’s works. This was originally done by the Bach Society (... Bachgesellschaft) starting in 1850 … and, according to its bylaws, it dissolved once its work was complete. That is why the NBG, the “New Bach Society,” is still called what it is called today. It is, so to speak, the second version. However, the BWV catalog of Bach’s works is not the only catalog of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works. Here on Bach on Bach, you can learn more about that as well..

You see a historic note sheet with notes on it. And that is in the handwriting of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is brownish.

Music “not of this world”: That is precisely the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court Composer..

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Personality..

He’s said to have been complicated. Johann Sebastian Bach is even said to have once thrown his wig. At his students. Seriously: Haven’t you ever seen even the calmest person “explode”? The wig-throwing incident. Bach probably didn’t have any better objects to throw or make fly in order to make himself heard. Imagine Bach’s demand for perfection. And then there were students who, as he once wrote, couldn’t sing a single note in tune. It’s almost inevitable that even a master would lose his temper at times. But it’s not fair to judge Bach entirely based on this one anecdote. Granted, he did complain a great deal throughout his life. And he grumbled when he was denied an audience by his regent, who was his employer at the time. Nevertheless, in his defense, one must first take his genius into account. Second, there are no authentic sources that document just how patient Bach could be..

I feel the same way about the interpretations of other well-known, historically recorded events. For example, the story surrounding the drawn épée of Mr. Bach, the organist in Arnstadt. Very little – truly very little – is known about Johann Sebastian Bach’s personal life. He left exactly one private letter to posterity. That’s right ... it was the famous letter to his school friend Georg Erdmann. While with other artists we know almost exactly what their favorite dessert was, we know virtually nothing about Bach ... except for what was written in that letter. In those lines from Leipzig, in that letter from Johann Sebastian Bach to Georg Erdmann..

It is a brownish historic postcard. Upright format. The upper half shows Bach like he is displayed on the Haußmann painting, the lower part shows the "old Bach monument" next to St. Thomas School.

Johann Sebastian Bach's letter to his school friend Georg Erdmann ... Bach wrote it here in Leipzig. It is the only document in which Bach himself left a personal message for posterity ... aside from his music, of course..

One Shop? No ... There Are Even Five Shops!..

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On a Bach Postage Stamps Calendar you see an illustration of golden notes and note lines. In the middle there is a greyish stamp with a portrait of Bach and more. The calendar title and the year is shown, too.

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Bach Posters. European style. Three sizes. This year, next year. Find out the difference between an EU style calendar and a US style calendar. © Peter Bach, Jr..

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Johann Sebastian Bach the Exciting Way: That Is What This Website Wants to Offer

This is what this Bach website wants to offer: to highlight everything related to Johann Sebastian Bach, but as well to the Bach Family of Musicians. Also, it wants to do that excitingly. It is more than just a collection of facts; this is what is already exists on paper and the internet. This website wants to do better. Like Johann Sebastian Bach would have probably done, editing the facts. Therefore, they are fun while you approach the person of Bach and his life. That is my actual goal. How you find your way to him and give him a chance, to present his music work, actually does not matter. I am serious, with much respect: offering perfect music, serving godly musical knowledge ... that is what I am not perfect in. I am – as I mentioned – more "at home" in the section of entertainment. For all those serious people, those Bach enthusiasts and those Bach confessors, 53,000 authors and thousands of publisher companies have already been taken care of. I just address the rest of you. Also, this website is for one or another, who finds that a combination is possible. Reference plus "very easy going" at the same time, so to speak.

A nowadays photo shows the Bach monument in Weimar from a frogs view so an actual shy monument looks really impressive. You see some leaves of a tree and a small portion of the blue sky.

Johann Sebastian Bach in Weima. The monument is photographed excitingly. Only for that reason, Bach looks so impressive. An interesting question is when there will be a Bach House to honor this world-famous artist in Weimar?

Johann Sebastian Bach FAQ..

Johann Sebastian Bach FAQs, or Johann Sebastian Bach FAQ? With an "s" ... or without an "s"? Let us not care. Alternatively, call them Q&A if you like. However, there are 100 exciting questions and 100 correct answers. This is the section for kids, for students, for Bach starters – here you get the answers "to the point": All is related to Johann Sebastian Bach, but also to the Bach Family of Musicians as well.

Johann Sebastian Bach FAQs (... or if you like, the plural without an "s" and for that reason, just Johann Sebastian Bach FAQ) is a unique section on this JSB website, which addresses students in particular, but Bach novices as well. Bach FAQ has the perfect answers to the most frequently asked questions related to Johann Sebastian Bach, to the famous Bach sons or those associated with the music of Bach. First, you get a short answer to the point. After that, you will find more and more detailed information related to the question. I put together precisely 100 questions for you and I will provide you with an answer to each of them.

100 Videos on the Topic of J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach videos. All Bach videos are accomplished meanwhile, and with them, you experience the journey of life Johann Sebastian Bach once started some 330 years ago. In combination with the Bach music videos meanwhile, it is a total of some 1,150 of my self-created little shows. Most of them have a length of three to six minutes. Just watch one or two videos, and maybe you will get hungry for more, or maybe – for all? The little works report about the Bach House in Eisenach, a "trip of Johann Sebastian Bach around the world on stamps" and it goes without saying you get really great impressions about all the essential Bach cities and Bach places, just in case you want to visit those places one day in the future. © Info.

What is necessary to explain? What is – maybe – necessary to tell? Maybe the Bach videos. Those who want to have real fun with this Johann Sebastian Bach website get a tiny "manual" here too. The little shows and the Bach music videos are different. The shows come with narrated text, and they are embedded in music. Mostly they present the Bach cities and the Bach places. You will discover the many domains where Bach lived and worked. However, you will experience those places as well, where Bach lived before he got his first "real" job at Arnstadt. One little Bach show introduces Johann Sebastian Bach on stamps, and there is a short biography. Beyond those nine Bach cities and Bach places, there are several more villages and towns, which are linked to the name of Johann Sebastian Bach directly. Gotha, for instance, is one of the Bach cities and Erfurt too. In a third category, you will find Bach cities and Bach places, in which the Thomas Cantor performed back then: just once or several times. Also, there are locations, where Bach inspected an organ. You will find short narrated videos about Gotha, Erfurt, and Dornheim too.

In addition, there are the Bach music videos. First, there are the most well known and most famous of Bach works which you can choose to listen to. Moreover, for the reason you may watch "something" while you listen to this music of Johann Sebastian Bach, I offer you to choose from many, many interesting photo themes. You decide which one is right for you. Alternatively, you listen to the same piece of music again and decide on another photo theme after the first. Important, so important is something that I should already better tell you about here and on the page later again. You first must decide on a piece of music. Click on the title in the red navigation, then decide on the photo theme you want to see. It does not work vice versa because we would have to offer 1,158,921 Bach music videos instead of "just" 1,089. Sorry for your inconvenience.

Between the years 1600 and 1800, the name of Bach didn't only stand for the master himself. In these three centuries, the name of Bach was also linked to a whole and a large family of musicians. This family was so much said to deliver a high quality of music like only a few companies managed and still manage this today. Keywords are Caterpillar, Google, and Xerox. In Austria, for instance, you "kaercher" which means you pressure clean something. Actually mostly with one of these yellow machines, which are produced by a German company in Swabia: Kaercher. Back then, it was the Bachs whom communities and churches wanted to hire. Even in a period when almost no Bach ever worked in such a position anymore, they called this group of folks: the Bachs, actually the Bache with an "e" at the end, which was plural of Bach back then. This is one more reason why there are Bach cities and Bach places. However, on this Johann Sebastian Bach website all 33 Bach cities and Bach places are related to the composer, except for a few, which are so heavily related to the Bachs as a family of musicians, that we just cannot skip them. All is somewhat very confusing. However, even with a significant portion of goodwill, some are not Johann Sebastian Bach cities at all – in the sense of this website.

Just imagine you like this video. If so you will find many more, which you might not have been aware of without that hint here. The story of Johann Sebastian Bach actually began in Wechmar in Thuringia. In the Bach place of Wechmar or better and German: In the "Bach origin community Wechmar" on the doorstep of Gotha. Johann Sebastian Bach had never been in Wechmar. However, Veit Bach, who isn't missing in any biography, had died here in the year 1619. With mentioning Veit in the "Ursprung," it is for the first time in Wechmar when the name of Bach and a musical skill met in history.

Not earlier than in 2014 this video has been accomplished. About Weimar, not to be confused with Wechmar. Here you may watch this show too if you liked the video above. By the way, Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked twice in Weimar. One was a very short period; one was a very long time. © Info.

By the way, it is handed down: Johann Sebastian Bach has visited Erfurt at least once for a professional reason. But probably he has been there several more times for family purposes. This miniature portrait of the city of Erfurt was our first accomplished Bach video: What a city! What a history! In that video, you will meet Bach author Helga Brueck. This video was already accomplished in 2012. It is a pity Mrs. Brueck died much too early in 2013. Here we want to remember her. Without her, we would have never found my roots.

However: On "Bach on Bach," there are very different exciting videos too. I researched the internet for you, checking on cool clips regarding the theme of Johann Sebastian Bach or his music. Also, it goes without saying that I would love to hear about more videos out there from you. What you do not find here for a purpose are the typical music videos as they are familiar on YouTube. They are cute, many of them are excellent, some perform Johann Sebastian Bach's music to perfection – but you will find those videos without my help. In my third section of Bach videos, you will find this and that, what matches the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Funny performances, exciting ideas, small takes to smile about, plus Bach videos to just make you shake your head. Well, you probably remember: Really serious these are different places on the internet. Here it has to be ... funny as well.

This Bach video related to stamps around the theme of Johann Sebastian Bach is really not designed for stamp collectors. It is designed for those among you, who just want to search for exciting stuff on this Johann Sebastian Bach Adventure Park. Come on, what are you waiting for? Try it. Click on the play button ( > ) now.

Are you too impatient now to watch one more Johann Sebastian Bach video? Then scroll down a little. If not, please find a foretaste to a really rewarding tour destination in the matter of Bach: the Bach city of Eisenach. © Info.

The second category of Bach videos are the Bach music videos. You hear one piece of music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and you watch one theme of pictures of your choice. There are 33 picture themes, and there are 33 music works. So that are how many Bach music videos? Exactly 1,089. © Gerhard Kaune, with heartfelt thanks.

Johann Sebastian Bach music videos. You really do have to get used to the fact that I decided not only for themes of pictures, which are related around the composer but more that are not related to the court composer at all. There are German touristic highlights for Bach enthusiasts from abroad; there are picture themes for children, for nature lovers, for USA fans, for Paris enthusiasts and some more exciting subjects. Why don't you try it out?

Johann Sebastian Bach Stamps..

Four postage stamps from Grenada display instruments and the head of Johann Sebastian on each stamp. The value is 25 and 70 Cents, plus 1 and 2 Dollars.

Whether it's about Johann Sebastian Bach stamps from the Caribbean ...

A passion inside a passion – our Bach stamps. Yes, you just can fall in love with these little sticky cutes. And when you discover these small miniature works of art –for the first time somewhere, tiny and diffuse (... for instance on the internet ...), then you will be delighted. However, when you experience a Bach stamp "live" for the first time – so to speak, that is when you hold one in your hands and watch it – then it fascinates you. After that experience, you might go on a hunt for the next Bach stamps. Then you do not just think about how to get them all, but you first think twice how you find out where and how to get a summary – that is to say a summary about all the Bach stamps on Earth, released until the present day. And you approach the philatelists. Because collecting Bach stamps has not been the fascination of collecting stamps in general, not the pure excitement of stamps. In my case, it is ... yes, it's a pleasure that comes with the theme of Bach, actually "department Bach stamps." At the same time, there was my wish to present all those "jewels." That is, to present them all to perfection, so you get excited. Please visit the round about 150 miniature works of art. If you like it, in an unbelievable resolution, size, and sharpness via Flickr.

A Chinese postage stamp shows the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach plus his signature and a value of 1.20. You can read the composer's life dates + the word CHINA.

... or Bach stamps from Europe, Africa, South America or like this here, from China: On this Johann Sebastian Bach website you will find all of them. More? You will not find more Bach stamps anywhere. Not on the internet, not in the real world.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Quotes, Tributes, Poems, Sayings, Honors, and Anecdotes..

You see the tribute from Max Reger, a German composer to Bach and it's in his handwriting. On top there are the notes form the word Bach, the tribute is fowollowing and he signed with his name and the date May 7th 1912.

Tributes to Bach, respectively Bach quotes (... it depends on which view you see it ...) – here is the tribute of German composer Max Reger: All together in one of the sections. I have prepared some really unique ones for you. It is a total of 66 tributes or quotes related to Johann Sebastian Bach, which are awaiting you. Also, you may read them all better than the one by Max above.

Actually, in the Bach tributes section, respectively the quotes section, you will not find the quotes which Johann Sebastian Bach said about others. Here on "Bach on Bach" it is about tributes, that famous or at least known personalities said about the work of the master or about Johann Sebastian Bach. Sayings, wisdom and the mentioned tributes, which then became quotes in a time of 300 years. I collected them from the most different corners of the internet; I archived them, I recycled them with love and tinkered with them for you in a new constellation. Also, you get pictures of the personalities who stated them – the quotes. In addition, for those who will not be happy with the name of the person who adored Johann Sebastian Bach that much, I have added a short biography to let you know a little more about the admirer of Bach. If you can't really get enough, there is a link which makes you an expert if you "click yourself clever." There are some 66 quotes and tributes, but there are not 66 authors, as some of them have stated more than one tribute. One or another tribute did not make it into the collection for several reasons. This page almost never wants to assume the status of completeness. It has to remain entertaining. The last statement is true except for the stamps, the most tributes regarding Bach in a collection, the Bach genealogy, and a few disciplines more. One quote is not permitted to enter the "Bach Hall of Fame." If you are interested in which one that is, feel free to click here – I installed a back button for you there. If you are pleased with Bach tributes, then you will have exceptional fun with these 66 Bach tributes. It is, in my opinion, the most complete collection of tributes to Bach. If you show me a more complete collection – mine will be the most complete again after a couple of days.

A historic engraving of Ludwig van Beethoven in black and white and it's on white background with a mirror at the bottom of the picture.

Ludwig van Beethoven: His tribute about the life works of Johann Sebastian Bach has even found its way onto a Bach memorial. You will meet both on this Bach website. The tribute – and the Bach memorial.

My Johann Sebastian Bach Image Archive

Those who are just in the mood for pictures around Johann Sebastian Bach will be rewarded here. Nowhere else will you find so many different and consequently sharp, high resolution and exciting photos and images around the theme of Bach, like on this Johann Sebastian Bach portal. It starts with the fact that only photos and images, as well as illustrations, are permitted, which are photographed in a high standard or scanned to perfection. So it's not about the completeness of this Bach niche of the internet, not at any price. Only what is beautiful or exciting and high quality is permitted to get in here.

What photos exactly will you find in the Bach picture archive? For instance photos of the Bach cities and Bach places. Alternatively, many, many photos of the Bach monuments all over the world. When I took these photos myself, especially as this eases the copyright situation dramatically, then you get the Bach memorial from a frog's view, from the right, from the left, once from a very close distance and another from "one-mile distance." Almost always with perfect weather conditions, which is pure sunshine. With only very few compromises. So that everyone realizes, actually you realize, how much fun I had, to find these locations, to experience these places and finally to take photos of these locations. After that, we edited the tons of photos, optimized them and eventually not only used them as illustrations on many, many pages of this website but also collected them for this Bach picture archive. However, there is more in that section, especially for Bach enthusiasts. I won't tell you here. Find it out yourself.

Just one picture of Erfurt, one of Eisenach, and one of Köthen and Leipzig

Of course, I provide an example. Erfurt is no real "Johann Sebastian Bach city." However, there is no doubt, Erfurt is a Bach city. More than 60 files in the church records of Erfurt are related to the Bach Family of Musicians. Almost everything that is beautiful in Erfurt is what I have taken photos of for you. You can experience the pics in the department "Bach pictures," one at a time. Alternatively, you can decide for the department "Bach + Music" and choose one music piece of the master and then decide for the photo theme of Erfurt by clicking the matching button.

Gotha is indeed a Bach town: even two Bachs performed there.

Lübeck, a Bach city? Of course... he might almost have gotten married there.

... and finally Dresden, Saxony. Bach would have loved to work there. However, he did very little there. But he won what was probably the first major music competition in the world there..

Practically all "real" Bach cities and Bach places are photographed during perfect weather. With many, many details - all that you can do without an extended vacation and without the knowledge of a local. Many an archway, many a Bach monument and many a detail made a second visit necessary. Because the sunshine came from the wrong direction. Alternatively, bad weather surprised me. You will discover perspectives and get many images of sights, which you probably will not realize, and discover visiting many places a first time in the matter of Bach. You will experience just the result, which you get if someone is not only interested in the passion of Johann Sebastian Bach but likes taking photos as well. However, all photos, which you might find perfect on this website, are placed as well on Flickr: better, sharper, in higher resolution. All surfers with an experience of more than four hours surfing on the web may excuse the following – there is a manual for Flickr as well. Because we want to take care, don't we? Finally, in this chapter of Bach photos: there are always more photos in the Bach picture archive than you think there are. It will be the biggest Bach picture archive in the world soon, and that is not just with "a few more images." It is necessary to find really a lot more pictures.

What else do you find there? Historical pictures, for instance. Much of what you might find on the internet here and there in poor quality – plus not in real high definition. Original documents, engravings, Bach portraits, historical sights of the Bach cities and Bach places, postcards, books ... just: more, than you can imagine at this moment. Get there now with a click here.

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The Music of Bach (2) ... You Definitely Haven’t Met It Like This Before..

This website always wants to be a guarantee for surprises ... and that will remain this way into the future. So you might have read in the music chapter 1 above regarding the music of the master already. Here now I present a very uncommon way to learn more about Bach's music and Bach's work. How Johann Sebastian Bach's music sounds, especially the very well-known pieces that is what you already know for sure. However, if you do not sit in a concert hall, you listen to your surround sound system at home, or you have your headphones on now, why don't you offer your eyes in "the next round" something special and interesting to watch? Like standing in front of an Italian ice cream variety, everything is offered here to you on "Bach on Bach" to mix your own ingredients: music and pics. Precisely 33 themes of gorgeous photos and exciting pictures are what we have collected and put together for you. Also, we searched for the 33 most admired music works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Now you may combine every piece of music with every theme of photos. It is actually true: you have the choice of 1,089 music and photo theme video combinations, which you may enjoy one after another.

Johann Sebastian Bach International..

You see the world in a grey and white on the blue earth. A light is shining on it and there is a shadow at the bottom of the picture. On the left side at the bottom the four letters INTL add to this.

How do you get the idea to offer a Johann Sebastian Bach website in 20 language versions? It is that easy: You just overdo everything. That is also true for the foreign language versions. © Info..

Yes, it is a little challenge, which I had in my head back then. It was the beginning of February 2013. To spread the cultural assets of Johann Sebastian Bach even more and even more dynamically all over the planet, the internet is just perfect. And if there is one last existing hurdle left, it is to communicate the most exciting things about the master in one's own mother language (I know a mother language is always one's own mother language). With much fun learning English and talking English, I know that even with 20 years of experience, I am challenged by English text, by a book or by a movie more than when I experience it in the German language, in my mother language.

This is why I hope for help from abroad. I still hope for support from students or from Bach enthusiasts, who are not "just coming along the way." Even before I ever asked, I met first Xi, next Elena, and they translated my Chinese, my Russian and my Ukrainian version to perfection. There are much ambition and time needed, but my concept is entailed. If it works out, what I imagine and how I imagine it, then there will be much Bach knowledge available to learn one day. That is in 35 international languages and maybe beyond. Besides the languages spoken by our neighbors and those in the European Union, there are such challenges left like Hindi, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian. When the English website is proofread to perfection, I will ask for the help of students in universities all over the planet.

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魏玛的约翰-塞巴斯蒂安-巴赫纪念馆。巴赫在图林根的这座城市生活过两次。第一次只住了六个月，第二次住了九年。全世界大约有 33 座巴赫纪念碑。没有其他作曲家拥有更多的纪念碑。请在此一一浏览。..

There is now a perfect Chinese version of two of my project pages on Johann Sebastian Bach. And – as such – there is also a Korean, Hebrew, and Hindi version. For example. Together, there are 18 more versions than German and English. We are particularly proud of the Chinese video biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Why not take a look and listen to it? Just for fun? Click on the play button above and listen to 30 seconds. This will give you a feel for the challenge. And Korean? A whole different league, even for me as a professional. Compared to that, even Chinese was a piece of cake.

33 Bach Cities and Bach Places..

Finally, it is clear. Clarity regarding the question, how many Bach cities and Bach places there are around. Five or eight or nine? Alternatively, are there thirty-three or maybe more? Well, it depends, but we clear that up for you. With a whole page and indeed much exciting information.

Back to the locations, which you already may connect to the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. There is one question: did he "act" already at his place of birth? Sure he did because he sang together with his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach. More precisely, he sang to his father's music. Also, both made money that way. So, to the point: he worked, and he was employed in five cities. Four more towns and villages are what you may add as important Johann Sebastian Bach places. That is a total of nine crucial Johann Sebastian Bach locations.

Next, there are three more cities and communities, which are absolutely considered Bach cities and Bach places, but they are no real "Johann Sebastian Bach cities" or "Johann Sebastian Bach places." Why that is so, is what you do not find here. However, that much right away: there has been the Bach Family of Musicians as well.

Finally, there are many, many cities and communities, in which Johann Sebastian Bach "has just done something." Whether these locations are Bach cities or Bach places just for that reason, we might very much argue about that.

Last but not least, there are some few "collections of houses," which had been existing as communities but they are not anymore. There are locations where Johann Sebastian Bach once was, but he didn't perform there, he did not inspect there, and it's the moment, where a little burlesque would start. If you now would like to learn more about these Bach cities and Bach places right away and why you may connect which one with Johann Sebastian Bach, then please click here.

Stop, stop: If you make every city, every community and every place, where a famous Bach or one of the less famous Bache of this family of musicians has lived, acted or performed a Bach city, a Bach community, a Bach village or a Bach nest, than many, really many locations would be considered a Bach place, way beyond Bückeburg, Schweinfurt, Milan and London. But that ... is getting absurd now.

There are nine Bach cities and Bach places, which have played an essential role in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. That's because he once lived there, he worked there, he learned there or had at least married. © Google Maps..

Johann Sebastian Bach on Paintings, Drawings, Erasures, and Engravings..

There is probably no other musician, aside of Johann Sebastian Bach, who is displayed on so many paintings, drawings, engravings, erasures, and scribbles, which show what Bach did not look like. However, one picture, which exists even three times as an original (... actually 2 + 1 for experts), is the exception: It is the painting "Johann Sebastian Bach" by Elias Gottlob Haußmann. How he painted him, is what the Thomas Cantor actually looked like. All the others, for example, the artists Rentsch and Ihle and the many ones later, have painted Bach how they just liked it. Maybe, but only maybe the so-called "old age picture" of Bach shows him realistically too – but it is not certain. Johann Sebastian Bach: Nothing around the master is just smooth. You will meet many, many portraits of the genius on the many hundred pages of this Johann Sebastian Bach website, both historical and modern.

The most famous paining of Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann in a big golden historic frame. Bach is looking to the artist and has a note sheet in his right hand. Of course he has his peruke on.

Johann Sebastian Bach, what he very probably looked like. This work was painted by Elias Gottlob Haußmann ... during Bach's lifetime, probably around 1745. © Info..

A must-see: How the authentic portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach was created. Haußmann painted, Bach sat as the model. Today, the whole thing is generated with AI. The AI actor is astonishingly realistic: more so than any painter after Haußmann ever managed to achieve. The video is three and a half minutes short. And indeed, even extremely conservative Bach fans might enjoy it. © Bachwochen Thun..

What Else Can You Find on the Internet? About this Genius Johann Sebastian Bach..

What would a Bach website be, if you would not find more recommendations regarding more Bach websites on the internet? It goes without saying, that the important ones are listed below, but you will discover smaller ones as well. Finally – how could that be different – I added some of my further Bach websites ... they are Bach websites with particular Bach themes. It all starts with Wikipedia, for all those, who love it relatively "entertainment free" but to the point. However, this source is what you would have found even without my help. However, leaving it away here ... that would not have worked. One of the best sources is www.bach.de. However, it's in German only. Sorry. But I had to tell you about this particular website, as it's author's name is Peter Bach. So? He is not related. Also, he's a doctor, while I am related to the composer from Thuringia. Of course, I am just kidding, as he worked for his title and I did nothing but genealogy to find out that I am a far related relative. More as a practical joke, you get a link here to a Bach College, actually, it's a German Gymnasium in Southern Germany, namely Mannheim: The Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium.

Now we are serious again, and there's - as the number one – my own website "Johann Sebastian Bach for Children – Info, Links, Fun" ... it is exciting for kids. It is the perfect amount between information, music, interesting fun to discover about the millennium composer, and it addresses both students and teachers. "Bach in Wechmar" informs, like no other website, precisely about the Bach location, when the name of Bach and the term of music once met for the first time. Now and then some ads point to additional offers, however, it's not in the way like promotion often is placed. This advertisement is promoted by the publishing house of my wife, and there you may discover one Bach highlight or another. However, be aware: even my hint in this last sentence could be considered promotion. Therefore, because you might not have realized that – with a smile, again here – I point to this fact for you.

So back to my recommendations, they are spread all over my pages of this Bach website. There is for instance – at position 1 of course – the Bachhaus (Bach House) in Eisenach. Only a few minutes away from the town center. We both, my wife and I are convinced: That is the most exciting, the really very most exciting Bach Institution all over the planet. After that, there is the website of the "Bach Friends in Dornheim" (... it's a pity it's in German only). The residents of this 500 folks village have done an outstanding job by saving the little wedding church, where Johann married his first wife back then. The Bach-Archive in Leipzig in the direct neighborhood of the St. Thomas Church and the new Bach monument is next, and the offer, the website and the events of the New Bach Society are exciting. Of course, you will learn on my website, why it is the New Bachgesellschaft, which is the New Bach Society and not just the Bach Society. The St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirche) has a website worth a visit. Two websites, which I recommend on my German sister page – however, I regret, they are in English only – are a perfect suggestion for you. In English again the J.S. Bach Home Page and finally the internet and Bach portal of our friend Aryeh Oron in Israel with his most gigantic Bach offer in English language on the globe: the Bach Cantatas Website. Sure, you do find Bach videos and more Bach videos on YouTube. All Bach choirs, Bach orchestras and Bach societies in the world is what you find on my internet portal and what if you visit a real cute website johannsebastian.de (... sorry German only)? Let us travel south and explore which websites are there to discover and worth a visit. In Switzerland the Johann Sebastian Bach Forum is exciting (... sorry again, not yet in English), "Bach in Köthen" is entertaining and there is a website with important information about Bach's oldest son, who was born in Weimar: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. However, it's still in German only, and there will be an English page late in 2018 or early 2019. If you want to learn more about this first of all Bach sons, you better click to FAQ 116 on the German website "Bach über Bach" and use "Google Translator," to get a full and most detailed summary regarding on what they have done to this poor Bach son in 300 years. It's an affair of the heart to repair his reputation. Okay now, that should be enough in the discipline "more cool Bach websites."

Johann Sebastian Bach for Many Small Little Green Men from Outer Space..

Do you remember? Do you remember the year 1977? Jimmy Carter was President of the United States of America and NASA, together with the Voyager Golden Record Team, led by Carl Sagan, decided on a selection of pictures and music pieces, which were launched – on a "Golden Record" – in the spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 "direction nowhere." Main issue: out of our solar system. 55 nations narrated a first "Hello," "Grüezi" or just "Howdy." Even in historic Greek, just in case these extraterrestrial recipients of our message would be some 2,000 "years behind," and there is something like an interstellar Greece on an Earth similar planet. Sure, it was not just an ordinary "How are you?" There came many exciting short messages with it. The life term of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 – of course just estimated – is 500 million years.

The attached pictures are fascinating too: They range from "man walks a dog ( ... a "spitz", which is a tiny dog race, is mentioned ... ) on a flower meadow", via an "... on his back lying gator" to a "woman with shopping cart in the supermarket bites in grapes".

What about Johann Sebastian Bach? How is all this related to Johann Sebastian Bach? Sure, we humans have sent music as well. What would this Golden Record be without music? 27 music works. From the Old World Europe, from the New World, America, from Asia and Australia. Now, who is first in that collection? It is Johann Sebastian Bach. Because he is one of the first in the alphabet? No, I checked on that for you. If not, there are other reasons. Which work is it? One piece of the "Brandenburg Concerts." Which other classical composer is present? Mozart. Of course. Headword "The Magic Flute." Who else? Beethoven. With his "Fifth Symphony." What rings the bell with the headword Beethoven? He is present two times, a second time at the very end of the list. However...

Johann Sebastian Bach wins the competition, which was never advertised, clearly. Also, that is to say secretly and obviously. Because there are two, additional works included from Johann Sebastian Bach: even earlier than the first work of Mozart and Beethoven. It is "Gavotte en Rondeau" of Johann Sebastian Bach. Even before Beethoven shows up on the intergalactic stage, there is a third piece of music for these aliens that is to say just a short piece. One small piece from the "Well-Tempered Clavier."

Three times Johann Sebastian Bach, two times Ludwig van Beethoven, one time Mozart. Johann Sebastian Bach on rank 1 + 10 + 17. Ludwig van Beethoven on rank 18 + 27. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on rank 11. However, I have to mention that regarding dramaturgy, the best always comes last, which indeed requires some amount of patience from every extraterrestrial, experiencing the "Golden Record." However, Beethoven wins against Johann Sebastian Bach, if you add up the lengths of the musical offerings and compare that: Johann Sebastian pieces add up to a total of 12 ½ minutes, Beethoven music on the "Golden Record" has a length of 14 minutes. Of course, musicians from far away from the "Land of the Bache" are represented too: Chuck Berry and Louis Armstrong have the privilege.

You find this style and content funny? Yes, it is actually sort of. That is how I had fun writing it. Because it's fun for me, you learn much, much more about Johann Sebastian Bach. Also, you do so in a more entertaining way, than anywhere else in the world and on the internet. Is that a deal? Of course, I thought that before. It is just "Johann Sebastian Bach my way" so to speak: based very, very loosely on Frank Sinatra.

You see the Golden Record on a black background. Some engravings which are hard to explain can be located on thet record. There is a shine in the middle.

Johann Sebastian Bach Monuments

So? Do you know it? How many Johann Sebastian Bach monuments in the world honor this composer? Anyhow, here on this website you will find them all. Those in Germany, the ones in the United States of America and of course the only one in Shanghai in China. Many, actually almost all of them are what I took photos of for you. In 1,000 variations – well, it might not be that many. I was busy for 45 minutes around the one in Ansbach, Germany. Today I am most excited by the view in Ansbach, where you can read "Bach" in the background. Three Bach monuments are still on my wishlist: all of those are only presentable with a considerable amount of organization. That is Johann Sebastian Bach in Shanghai, JSB in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and finally one monument of Bach in Cleveland, Ohio. These three are still missing. There is one month left until nature is perfect in both the USA and China and I hope to find three supporters until then, who would take photos of these three monuments of Johann Sebastian Bach in a way that I would do it if I were there. Here is a quick detour to the pictures of all the Johann Sebastian Bach monuments.

You see the upper part of the Bach monument in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. It's silver, it's modern, it's from steel. In the background you see the letters BACH, which actually names the city of Ansbach.

Johann Sebastian Bach in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Exciting: there is no such thing as the word "Bach" on the house in the background. This word actually is Ansbach.

Bach Choirs, Bach Orchestras and Bach Societies All Over the World

Bach choirs, Bach orchestras, Bach societies. Did you know that most of them are in Germany? Sure, you knew that. Did you know there are 90 in Germany? Almost the same number is how many you find in both the United Kingdom and the USA combined.

If we add up all choirs, orchestras, and societies, that decorate themselves with his name to honor Johann Sebastian Bach, we get to the number of 222. The most exciting ones? Two institutions in Japan, one in New Zealand and there are two choirs with the name of Johann Sebastian Bach in Johannesburg and Pretoria, both in South Africa. Finally, there is a choir in Taipei. Here you get to all those 222 Bach choirs, and Bach orchestras, and Bach societies with one click.

Johann Sebastian Bach for All Interested Children on This Planet

The goal of this project is to spread the knowledge about the work of Johann Sebastian Bach even more. Also, the invitation to learn more about his life, about the Bach genealogy and to meet the many Bach cities and Bach places, where the master once lived and worked.

I believe that there are subjects when it is not that important to be excited. However, it sometimes just is about not spoiling something with the first contact. It is on that goal that my whole project and the website "Bach on Bach" are based on. It definitely wants to be a counterpart to the exquisite, but just different existing projects and websites about the musician.

To excite kids and students or to bother the words above again, not to scare them away, that is an ambitious part of the aspect inside my project. To transport highly complicated material excitingly, to edit it and to make it easy consumable: that is what I want with these pages and the whole cross-media project. For that purpose, this website is prepared multi-medially too. It is a website to experience and to discover, maybe it is even a "Johann Sebastian Bach Adventure Park." FAQ bring facts to those who approach other websites this way, too. The "Facts, Facts, Facts" section provides answers "to the point" – however in a different way. Moreover, for those who hate lengthy biographies, there is not just the one short biography, I offer eight ones in various lengths, including a brief video biography. Biographies: short and even shorter. To read, to experience via an interactive back and forth to a version with music or without. Finally, there is the mentioned nine-minute biography video: just to relax and watch.

Sure: This paragraph here (... on precisely this page, where you are reading at this very moment) is not optimized for kids. It is written for music teachers, for musicians with children, for schools, for music societies, for parents and grandparents. With fun and while interacting with the audiovisual offerings like videos, music videos, and background music, I want to offer the theme of Johann Sebastian Bach in a pedagogical way; in a way that is only possible with this modern medium. This Johann Sebastian Bach website is supposed to be the opposite of boring ... and that is true especially for kids and students. Some corners of this website have changed already during the evolution process. So the short biographies and in particular the FAQs were developed to be more and more child-friendly. Beyond these 100 FAQ, this platform wants to pick up interested folks on the internet: as the author, I have developed additional very unusual questions, that students or a young person could possibly ask. They are answered here. First, this offer starts with the 100 answers to the 100 most exciting questions. However, that will change chaotically soon – in the sense of the word. While the question "Who is the father of Johann Sebastian Bach?" is a common one, the question "Who painted the most famous picture of Johann Sebastian Bach?" is a less common question. This future area of the FAQ, that is to say starting with FAQ 101 and the following is currently coming into being in summer 2017.

A short portion of advertisement is just necessary here and now (... yes, this is no editorial paragraph, it is sort of an ad): There is one specialty which shows up as late as today with this Johann Sebastian Bach project. It is an offer for the very youngest in our society, which you can introduce as late as summer 2017 to the work and life of the Thomas Cantor with a coloring book. In both English and German at a time. Therefore, it's a highly pedagogical value. It's painted by a cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach, Briana Bach-Hertzog. Of course, of a second cousin – but without question, she belongs to the most famous family of musicians all over the world. End of this commercial paragraph.

This is an advertisement paragraph too. It is about my book. About Johann Sebastian Bach. Written by me, illustrated by Petra-Ines Kaune and put together by my wife, Renate. The biography of Johann Sebastian Bach for children. During the last many decades, relatively few books for kids have been published about the Thomaskantor. However, none of those really was a biography like mine, that is to say, none of those even came close. My biography about the life of the genius? Two very best friends forever, both cherubs, have common fun around the life and work of the "Royal Polish and Electoral-Saxon Court Composer." They are Veit and Balthazar. Balthazar was educated in how to tell especially exciting stories. Veit is a little cherub who specializes in performing music. In my biography for children about Johann Sebastian Bach, the reader is participating in a few days in the life of both. "Their stage" is both their own two little clouds and the clouds where they have breakfast, lunch and dinner together with the other cherubs. All of it is accompanied by music from Johann Sebastian Bach in the audiobook version. One version is not. That is to say, you may buy it in three versions: One is without music, one is with 18 times music, one version is with 66 times music. Of Johann Sebastian Bach. And me. Not only as a paper book, a real book so to speak, you may like this work as an e-book as well, and this is to say in two formats, one is with illustrations, one is pure text. Well, this is true after the following pic: The biography about Johann Sebastian Bach for children. And for adults, too. How come? Please click here. Okay here, end of advertisement.

Three little girls are laughing to the photographer. They have their painting stuff on the table and all three lean on their elbows on the table. They have colourful clothes on.

Yes, that is what children should look like, who have made acquaintance with the subject of Johann Sebastian Bach or his music. © Info. End of advertisement..

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: The Chapters on Page 1 Just Don’t Stop at All

Wow, You Are Actually Still Here?..

Are you still here? I am very pleased. Therefore, I thank you very much for your patience. For your time. I did not take it easy: to either make this introduction short or – as a second option – to write just like I love to write. Finally, I decided for the second option. As you always have the possibility to cancel the rest, take a shortcut or start to explore the page on your own, as it is well arranged. Also, this website is designed to be a Johann Sebastian Bach Adventure Park. However, maybe you are here to let me entertain you in "the matter of the master." Perhaps you like the style, my style of writing. That is why it's not about writing all that in a shorter way. In our current internet era, there is almost no time left for anything, and there is nearly no time left to enjoy something on the internet that you found recently, because you are actually already on the hunt for the next entertainment, which you want to consume as fast as you possibly can. Speaking of that, take yourself some time, when you discover the many Johann Sebastian Bach stamps, take your time when you watch all the Johann Sebastian Bach videos or when you discover all those Bach photos in the Bach image archive. Just for fun, make acquaintance with the Bach FAQ. Alternatively, I invite you as a guest for a short Bach short biography or a more extended Bach short biography. Nowhere else can you get a collection of all current new books on the market: I prepared such for you. The same thing is correct for the genealogy. It's unique in size and correctness in the world. The so-called Bach quodlibet is worth a click. Really. What about the Bach cartoon section? Now – what are you waiting for? Thanks for your attention. Also, as said, thank you for your time.

Yours Peter Bach, Jr.

Update from February 26th, 2026

Peter Bach, Jr., the author of this website. In a very upright photo a little boy in leather trousers is happily laughing to the camera. He has curls on his head and a white shirt on and leather trousers. Plus this boy has white shoes on.

A long, long time ago I already had fun living: author Peter Bach, Jr. in an original historic Bavarian costume – the latest chapter in a Bach genealogy.

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