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Bach's first 'Clavier' book was completed in 1722 and then - only 20 years later - he gave us Book 2! These works are musicologically important but it's music of rare and soothing beauty. Composer: ...

When the Berlin magazine "Signale für die Musikalische Welt" announced a piano work contest in 1909, Szymanowski submitted a combination of an old fugue he had composed back in 1905 with a short, ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Bach's Prelude No. 3 from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II by Finnish-Cuban pianist Anton Mejias, from his new album The Art of Memory, on Deutsche ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...

Bach's first 'Clavier' book was completed in 1722 and then - only 20 years later - he gave us Book 2! These works are musicologically important but it's music of rare and soothing beauty.