Johann Sebastian Bach/External Links

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	A hand-picked, annotated list of Web resources about Johann Sebastian Bach.

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General reference[edit]

• Bach-Leipzig.de, Bach-Archiv Leipzig
• The J.S. Bach Home Page - JSBach.org, by Jan Hanford - extensive information on Bach and his works; huge and growing database of user-contributed recordings and reviews
• J.S. Bach FAQ (from the Internet Archive), by Bernard Greenberg - answers many common questions about Bach
• Dave's J.S. Bach Page - JSBach.net, maintained by David J. Grossman - includes a catalog of works, images, MIDI files, audio, and electric bass arrangements
• J.S. Bach on Radio 3 - extensive resources on Bach, on occasion of BBC Radio 3's complete airing of Bach's works in Dec 2005
• J.S. Bach bibliography, by Yo Tomita of Queen's Belfast - especially useful to scholars
• Bach-Cantatas.com, by Aryeh Oron - information on the cantatas as well as other works
• Canons and Fugues, by Timothy A. Smith - various information on these contrapuntal works
• Carolina Classical: J.S. Bach - detailed biography with PDF scores of selected cantatas
• 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on J.S. Bach, provided by Jim McKeeth
• Riemenschneider Bach Institute - includes partical catalog of works by Bach and his circle, information about the Bach Festival
• Bruno de Giusti's transcription of J.S. Bach's pieces into MIDI - Bach's sonatas, Goldberg Variations, French and English suites in MIDI format, with an emphasys on performance

Scores[edit]

• IMSLP's ongoing project to sort and make freely available all of Bach's works from the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe.
• Works by Johann Sebastian Bach at Project Gutenberg
• Arrangements of music by Bach for guitar

Recordings[edit]

• Piano Society: J.S. Bach - A biography and various free recordings in MP3 format.
• Bach cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
• Listen to a free recording of Jesus bleibet meine Freude, meines Herzens Trost und Saft from Coro Nostro, a mixed chamber choir based in Leicester, UK.

• Listen to a free recording of Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226, a free recording of Jesu Meine Freude, BWV 227, a free recording of Komm, Jesu Komm, BWV 229, from Umeå Akademiska Kör.

• Skwik.com downloads - Toccata and Fugue in D minor and more
• The Well Temperated Clavier
• The J.S. Bach Connection (midi)
• Music for piano (midi)
• The Six Cello Suites Creative Commons MP3 Recording by Antonio Meneses
• [1]. In 2006, two of Bach's manuscripts from his early period were discovered; they contain transcriptions of other composer's choral pieces for performance by organ.

Specific topics[edit]

• Bach manuscripts - video lectures by Christoph Wolff on the Bach family's hidden manuscripts archive
• Faces of Bach - Site discussing the portraits of J.S.Bach.
• Bach Tuning
• An article on Bach's tuning script from his manuscript of The Well Tempered Clavier
• J.S. Bach's work in films

Performance groups[edit]

• Bach Collegium - Fort Wayne Utlizing early instruments and techniques
• Washington Bach Consort
• The American Bach Society
• The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
• Oregon Bach Festival
• Bach Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College Oldest collegiate Bach Festival in the United States
• Bach Collegium Japan
• The Meistersingers from Tokyo on the conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his enchanting Japanese Bach Collegium in tour in Germany, by Wolfram Goertz at signandsight.com.
• Bach on the bus on the viola player Volker Hagedorn's tour at signandsight.com