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Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 - "From you have I been absent in the spring," | 1:06The Insane Artist | 24K subscribers | 2,472 views | March 15, 2020

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Famous works attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach were not penned by the great composer but by his second wife, researchers believe. A study by an academic who has spent more than 30 years looking at Bach's work claims that Anna Magdalena Bach, traditionally believed to be Bach's musical copyist, actually wrote some of his best-loved works, including his Six Cello Suites. Martin Jarvis, a professor at Charles Darwin University School of Music in Darwin and the conductor of the city's symphony orchestra, said that "a number of books would need to be rewritten" after presenting his findings to a Bach...

A recently discovered aria by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) is to receive its first-ever modern performance in Weimar at the beginning of September, organisers of the city's Kunstfest said yesterday. German soprano Juliane Banse will perform the hitherto unkown work, discovered this year in the archives of the famous Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, on September 3 in the ceremonial ballroom of Weimar's Residenzschloss palace. Banse will be accompanied by Hungarian pianist András Schiff on harpsichord and the French-Austrian string quartet, Quatuor Mosaïques. The two-page handwritten aria, entitled "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn" ("Everything with God and nothing without...

BERLIN (AP) - Experts have discovered a previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach in a German library, a research foundation devoted to the composer said Wednesday. Historians found the aria in May in the Anna Amalia Library in the eastern city of Weimar, the Bach Archiv foundation said on its Web site. There was no doubt about the authenticity of the handwritten, two-page score, dated October 1713, Leipzig-based the foundation said. It was the first unknown vocal work by Bach to surface since the discovery of the single-movement cantata fragment "Bekennen will ich seinen Namen" (BWV 200) in 1935,...

Link to listen.(need a player? Download RealOne player ) Listen to the discovery of J. S. Bach's Bible: over 400 notations and a music from the Mass in B-minor "In devotional music, God is always present with his grace" --J.S. Bach "No longer can we simply do academic performances of his work." Dr. Thomas Rossin, musical director of Twin Cities-based chamber choir and orchestra Exultate, recently brought Bach's bible to the MPR studios. He has done his doctoral dissertation on the discovery of this treasure and on the nearly 400 notations Bach made in the books. Not only does...