Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg
1748 portrait of Bach holding a copy of the canon BWV 1076
Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de]
Current version of the Wender organ in the Bach Church, Arnstadt.
Organ of the St Paul's Church in Leipzig, tested by Bach in 1717
The Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes, BWV 651–668, are a set of chorale preludes for organ prepared by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in his final decade, from earlier works composed in Weimar, where
The court chapel at the Schloss in Weimar where Bach was court organist. The organ loft is visible at the top of the picture.
The single surviving page of the manuscript of "Vor deinen Thron tret ich", BWV 668, recorded by an unknown copyist in the last year of Bach's life.