Johann Sebastian Bach

Life and Works: BACH, J.S. (Siepmann)

• Bach at Cothen
• Bach takes up the poet's pen
• Family background and early years
• Bach and opera
• Music: Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved B
• Music: Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825 (Courante)
• Music: Concerto for Two Violins (Largo ma non tant
• 'Coffee' Cantata (excerpts)
• 'Peasant' Cantata (excerpts)
• Bach's frustration at Leipzig
• Bach and the organ
• The twilight years
• Music: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
• Music: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225
• Music: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D (first move
• Music: The Art of Fugue
• Frustrations intensify
• From grief to joy though faith
• Bach in trouble
• Music: 'Et Resurrexit' (B Minor Mass)
• Music: Trio Sonata in E flat, BWV 525
• Music: St John Passion (opening chorus)
• Bach's visit to Frederick the Great
• Bach's efforts to leave Leipzig
• New beginnings: Bach remarries and his family grow
• Music: The Musical Offering
• Bach the husband and father
• Music: Aria in G
• Decline and death
• Music: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (first movement)
• Music: Vivaldi / Bach: Concerto in A minor for Fou
• The King of Poland's jubilee
• Goldberg Variations and Anna Magdalena's Notebook
• Bach the young composer
• Music: Mass in B Minor
• Music: Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068
• Music: Stolzel: Bist du bei mir
• Music: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
• Bach in Weimar (and in jail)
• The Ernesti affair
• Domestic happiness and the move to Leipzig
• Music: Magnificat
• Music: Prelude in D Major, BWV 532
• Music: Prelude in E flat minor (The Well-Tempered
• Bach's duties at Leipzig
• Bach leaves Weimar
• Adolf Scheibe's scathing views on Bach
• Music: Canata No. 80 (Duetto)
• Music: Violin Concerto in E major (Finale)
• Music: Concerto in C for Three Harpsichords (Final
• Bach the teacher
• Music: Sinfonia (Three-Part Invention) in E flat
• The great keyboard works with an educational agend
• Music: Italian Concerto (last movement)
• A letter to the King
• Music: Cantata No. 147 (opening chorus)