“When in doubt, cite Grout,” my mother said. She was referring to Donald Jay Grout’s “A History of Western Music.” First published by W.W. Norton in 1960, it has gone through 10 editions and is ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — “Bach’s best.” It’s an irresistible concept, but does it mean anything? Such judgments are always fraught when it comes to artistic creations, even more so where the primary purpose ...

In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A review of Bach against Modernity by Michael Marissen. The experience of listening to great music leads many of us naturally to wonder about the lives of the composers who wrote it. In some cases, ...