Johann Sebastian Bach/External Links

General reference

 * 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

 * IMSLP's ongoing project to sort and make freely available all of Bach's works from the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe.
 * Arrangements of music by Bach for guitar
 * Arrangements of music by Bach for guitar

Recordings

 * 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
 * . 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

 * 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

 * 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