- J.S. Bach Home Page - http://www.jsbach.org/
An extensive biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and links. Award-winning site, maintained by Jan Hanford in North America and Jan Koster in Europe.
- Riemenschneider Bach Institute - http://www.bw.edu/~bachinst
Archive and research institute at Baldwin-Wallace College. Organization, contact, and journal subscription information provided, along with links and festival details.
- J. S. Bach: Canons and Fugues - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html
Tim Smith's studies of the composer's life and music, concentrating on the contrapuntal music.
- J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography - http://odur.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/intro.html
Biographical information, pictures and the full texts of over forty cantatas.
- J. S. Bach Texts - http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/
Complete vocal works with English translations. Limited permission to copy in programs and program notes.
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/3228/Bach/index.html
Basic information on the composer. Drop-down menu allows focus on specific periods of his life. Links to lives of other composers.
- Exeter Bach Society - http://members.aol.com/exbach/
News of Bach concerts in the Cathedral which support its Music Foundation Trust. Includes contact and membership information and an events diary.
- Biography of J.S. Bach - http://users.tellurian.net/tom/jsbach/index.htm
Brief sketch of his life, focusing on his rapidity of composition and technical skills both in playing and maintaining various instruments.
- Dave's J.S. Bach Works Catalog - http://www.jsbach.net/catalog/index.html
Complete works catalog, directory of internet resources, recommended recordings, MIDI and RealAudio files, images, icons, links, and a monthly quiz and CD giveaway.
- Johann Sebastian Bach Startpagina - http://bach.pagina.nl/
Netherlands directory of categorized links from Europe, Asia, and the United States including English, Dutch, and German.
- The Bach-Portal - http://www.bach-portal.com
Directory of annotated links. Listing by institutions, departments and societies, general links, catalogue of works and bibliographies, works, related Baroque composers, his world, performance practice, and Baroque instruments.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo7/boydbach.htm
Review of the biography by Malcolm Boyd. Emphasizes the book's strengths, including early influences that triggered his creative outbursts.
- J. S. Bach: His Predecessors - http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/bachjs/predcssr.html
Gives overview of his influences, including the German and Italian keyboard schools, French polyphony and organ music, as well as mathematics.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bachjs.html
Classical music pages article from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. Also links to related composers and topics, including cantatas, orchestral music, instrumental music, illustrations, list of works, and bibliography.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany - http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/bach1750.html
Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
- Bach Central Station - http://www.jsbach.net/bcs/
A large directory of J.S. Bach resources on the internet.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/composers/bach.html
Biography emphasizing personality and relationships as well as musical abilities from Decca.
- BACHorgan.com - http://www.bachorgan.com
Dedicated to building a community of those who love the Bach's pipe organ music. Includes biography, workshops, tributes, organ schools and purchase information, clip art, jokes, sheet music, recording and book sales, and links.
- J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - http://chuchristine.tripod.com/
Brief chronology, partial list of works with MIDI audio for selected BMV numbers, gallery, and contact information.
- Classical Music Archives: J.S.Bach - http://www.classicalarchives.com/bach.html
Over 1500 complete compositions in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes two biographies, time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages.
- Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4237
Find a Grave details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.hoasm.org/IX/IXBach.html
Biography, musicography, links to related composers, and companion resources from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bach.htm
Detailed biography and comments on his music from Grove Music plus MIDI audio, illustrations, and links from Kunst der Fuge.
- The London Bach Society - http://www.bachlive.co.uk/
Provides newsletter, details of the annual Bach festival, history of the organisation, database of his works and details of sponsership and membership.
- Bach, Mozart, and the Musical Midwife - http://schillerinstitute.org/music/m_rasmus_801.html
Speculation preceding examination of known facts about Amadeus transcribing music by Sebastian. Includes looks at other related composers and certain theoretical studies.
- Bach's Method of Transcription - http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html
Study of his compositional ideas using the clavier transcription (BWV 964) of the A minor Sonata for solo violin (BWV 1003). Includes musical notation to illustrate the author's points.
- Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement - http://www.fermentmagazine.org/essays/jsbach1.html
Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
- On Bach and the Curved Bow - http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/bachbow.html
A review of Michael Bach's performance of Bach's solo cello suites (Mode Records) using a curved cello bow which allows him to play chords without arpeggiation. Review considers the significance and historical implications of the curved bow in the performance of Bach's music.
- Rifkin's Pesky Idea - http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/oneperpart.html
Reprinted article examines the possibility that Bach used one singer per part rather than a larger choir in many of his vocal works.
- Schering's Wacky Theory - http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/Scherings.htm
Joshua Rifkin defends his own ideas on Bach's use of single-voiced choir parts by way of scholar Arnold Schering.
- Early Music Myths - http://www.diabolus.org/myths/myths.htm
Paul Baker of Diabolus in Musica uses the music of Bach to illustrate perceived problems and solutions to various performance issues, including choir size and instrument choice.
- mfiles - Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/johann-sebastian-bach.htm
Biography and music examples in the form of sheet music and sound files.
- Bach's Leipzig in pictures, 1725-1750 - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachleipzig.html
Contemporary prints of Bach's Leipzig showing familiar scenes and some lesser-known facets of Leipzig city life, institutions and facilities. Of unusual interest is the city's piped fresh water supply.
- Bach Plucked - http://www.bachplucked.com/
The composer's string music, especially lute and guitar, with specialized articles and links to internet resources .
- The Oboe and the Oboe d'amore in Bach's Church Cantatas - http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL6/bach.html
A well documented examination of Bach's possible oboists, as well as the instrument's range and notational problems, covering compositions from Mülhausen to Leipzig.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxjsbach.html
Detailed biography, covering each period in Bach's life.
- Bach Bibliography - http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/bachbib/
A comprehensive, searchable catalogue of books, articles, theses, papers and facsimile editions on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Oregon Bach Festival - http://bachfest.uoregon.edu/
A summer festival held in Eugene, Oregon directed by Helmuth Rilling. Booking information and schedules of concerts and master classes.
- Bach's Life in Pictures - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachillustrated.html
Color illustrations with captions and music samples documenting the major periods in Bach's life.
- Dorset Bach Cantata Club - http://uk.geocities.com/dbcclub/index.html
Information for amateur singers and orchestral players wishing to join a long-established choir & orchestra for weekend study and performance of Bach cantatas and related works.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=589
Musical biography with early influences, summaries of instrumental talents, professional positions, and compositions, historical significance, and partial list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/bach.html
Listing at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with German lyrics, many having English translations.
- Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach - http://www.elca.org/co/mosaic/winter02.html
Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach is a video documentary. Filmed on location in Germany, it features Bach scholars Christoph Wolff, Robin Leaver and guitar virtuoso Christopher Parkening.
- The Global Bach Community - http://www.bach-net.org
An organization devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide.
- Classic Cat - http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/index.htm
Directory of free Bach mp3s made available by the performing artists.
- Well-Tempered Clavier - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc
Index summarizing fugue-by-fugue analysis drawing comparisons from visual arts, physics, mathematics, literature and astronomy. Links to scores with digital sound and many resources on the life and works of Bach, designed for a course at Northern Arizona University.
- Well-Tempered Clavier: Hypermedia Analysis - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html
Analytical essays and animations by Tim Smith, performance-related essays by David Korevaar, and Korevaar's performances of the music. [Shockwave]
- Bach's organ works complete BWV listing - http://www.baroquecds.com/organtable.html
Complete BWV listing of Bach's Organ Works with links to CD recordings on Silbermann Organs from the Baroque Music Club.
- Emmanuel Music - http://www.emmanuelmusic.org
Founded in 1970 by Craig Smith to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended. Includes extensive translations and program notes.
- Bist Du bei Mir: BWV 508 - http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/bach1.html
An essay on the controversy over authorship of the religious song Be Thou with Me. Janet I. Wasserman argues that it originates with Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and was later adapted by Bach.
- A Study of the Texts of J.S. Bach's Motets - http://homepage3.nifty.com/dikaios/CMstudy/English/papers/B-Motets.htm
Tad Inoue of Japan provides an English version of a research paper dealing with the source material and characteristics of the lyrics with an evaluation of these writings.
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - http://www.carolinaclassical.com/bach/index.html
Detailed biography of the life of J.S. Bach with links to many of his Cantata scores as Adobe PDF files.
- Bach-Archiv Leipzig - http://www.bach-leipzig.de/
"Our purpose is to collect and examine literary and documentary material about the life, work and history of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family - and to present his work to the public through exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and publications." Site in English and German.
- Music History 102: Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/bar/bach.htm
Biography, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM files from the Internet Public Library. Written by by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian The Juilliard School, New York.
- Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.pianoparadise.com/bach.html
Detailing personal, professional life, and family life with annotated and rated sheet music offerings from Piano Paradise.
- Music of Intellect: Bach's Goldberg Variations - http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/indexe.html
Detailed study of the intellectual and psychological dimensions of one of these works. Includes MIDI audio samples plus pianistic information about Schoenberg, Schumann, and Mari Kumamoto.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) - http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=B&ComposerID=52
brief biography, caricature, summaries of his choral and vocal, organ, other keyboard, chamber, orchestral, and concerto output, and Naxos discography.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
Wikipedia article covering formative years, professional life and family life, later years, and legacy with BWV commentary, further reading, internal references, external links, and portrait.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001925/
Filmography linked to hundreds of films and television shows using his works with biography, trivia, and links from the Internet Movie Database.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/c/bach_js.htm
Hymn tunes by him or based on his works with MIDI audio and NWC format scores plus portrait. From the Cyberhymnal.
- Johann Sebastian Bach - http://hymnuts.luthersem.edu/hcompan/writers/bach.htm
City-by-city musical biography with hymn tunes, cantatas, organ chorales, and bibliography from Hymnuts.
- The Industrious Herr Bach - http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=31
Biography, timeline, quotes, key works, suggested recordings and reading, selected works, and links from Humanities Web.
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