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Johann Sebastian Bach

Born: 1685-03-31 in Eisenach, Germany

Died: 1750-07-28

Known For: Sound

Biography

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and over three hundred cantatas of which around two hundred survive. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.

Filmography

2026

53 Sundays ... (Music)
Vivaldi e Bach con Rinaldo Alessandrini ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach: Short Masses @ Bachkirche, Arnstadt ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach: Passion Oratorio - Il Gardellino Ensemble ... (Original Music Composer)
Expectorations Sacrées ... (Music)
Choral Music, from Dutilleux to Poulenc Featuring Birds on a Wire and the Théâtre de Chaillot ... (Original Music Composer)
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 The NDR Vocal Ensemble and Concerto Köln ... (Original Music Composer)
Jean-Sébastien Bach : oeuvres pour orgue à la Thomaskirche de Leipzig as Compositeur
Saburo Teshigawara, Sayaka Shoji, and Rihoko Sato @ Château de Champlâtreux - Sur Mesure ... (Original Music Composer)

2025

CITY THE ANIMATION ... (Music)
Minasi/ Bach - Passione secondo Matteo ... (Original Music Composer)
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025 ... (Music)
Armonie di Speranza ... (Original Music Composer)
Gravity Bach Complete performance of works for organ - Vol. 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
The Trilogy ... (Music)
Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom ... (Original Music Composer)
Badineries ... (Music)
La Troisième Veille ... (Music)
The Children are afraid ... (Original Music Composer)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason - My Playlist ... (Original Music Composer)
OSN: Giulio Cilona dirige il tradizionale Concerto di Natale 2025 ... (Original Music Composer)
Tabita Berglund and Julian Steckel ... (Original Music Composer)
Shani Diluka - Renaissance Royal Abbey of Fontevraud ... (Original Music Composer)
Gravity Bach Complete performance of works for organ - Vol. 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
Jenneba Kanneh-Mason @ Ruhr Piano Festival 2025 ... (Original Music Composer)
In Search of Bach II. Wedding Cantata ... (Original Music Composer)
Four hands for Mendelssohn Lucas & Arthur Jussen with Andris Nelsons ... (Original Music Composer)
Lucas and Arthur Jussen play Bartók @ Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra ... (Original Music Composer)
The First Stage ... (Compositor)
Yerevan Youth Symphony Orchestra @ Young Euro Classic 2025 ... (Original Music Composer)
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry ... (Original Music Composer)
For When I Think, There is This Heaviness That I Would Rather You Not Carry ... (Original Music Composer)
Gravity Bach Complete performance of works for organ - Vol. 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
Cristian Măcelaru & Julia Fischer - Brahms, Debussy and Barraine ... (Original Music Composer)

2024

Iveta Apkalna The 140th Anniversary of the Riga Cathedral Organ ... (Original Music Composer)
Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja ... (Original Music Composer)
Andris Poga dirige Mozart et Bruckner Avec David Fray ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach's St John Passion Sasha Waltz ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach & Zelenka Easter Oratorio & Easter Mass ... (Original Music Composer)
In Search of Bach III. Actus Tragicus ... (Original Music Composer)
Bertrand Chamayou & Leif Ove Andsnes @ Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2024 ... (Original Music Composer)
Hayato Sumino performs Chopin, Ravel, and Brahms @ Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo ... (Original Music Composer)
Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Milano ... (Original Music Composer)
In Search of Bach I. Welt, Gute Nacht ... (Original Music Composer)
Francesco Tristano: Oscillate - Ruhr Piano Festival 2024 ... (Original Music Composer)
In Search of Bach IV. Missa Brevis ... (Original Music Composer)
Alexandre Tharaud and Chun Wing Lam Paris Sur Mesure ... (Original Music Composer)
A Dance ... (Music)

2023

Keys to the Heart ... (Music)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci ... (Music)
Avi Avital and his Mandolin ... (Original Music Composer)
Ulises (C) ... (Music)
Daniil Trifonov - Thanks to the Music ... (Original Music Composer)
Good evening, we're from Barcelona ... (Songs)
Two Men on Train and Someone Else ... (Music)
Arandel's Bach Evolution in the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution - Paris Sur Mesure 2023 ... (Compositor)

2022

Bleat ... (Music)
Sting, Daniel Hope & Freunde in Berlin Mit Golda Schultz, Bruce Liu u.v.m. ... (Original Music Composer)
Astrakan ... (Music)
Eu Odeio Poeira ... (Music)
The Perfect Number ... (Music)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248 ... (Compositor)
Dialogue avec Bach ... (Sound)
Concert in solidarity with Ukraine - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin ... (Original Music Composer)
The Big Tree ... (Music)
La Fura dels Baus : Free Bach 212 ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach's Sacred Music Nativity | Passion | Resurrection ... (Original Music Composer)
Hope for Peace Concert from the Frauenkirche - Dresden ... (Music)

2021

Dancing Nation ... (Original Music Composer)
Gregorio ... (Music)
Ton Koopman a L'Aquila ... (Original Music Composer)
Presences Festival 2023 Bach / Lacôte / Chin / Robin ... (Original Music Composer)

2020

Happy Ending ... (Other)
Chaconne supra a sciara ... (Original Music Composer)
Who We Go Why ... (Original Music Composer)
The Red Scarf ... (Original Music Composer)
Klippningen ... (Music)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 ... (Writer)
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon Tribute concert ... (Music)
Stories In Place: Plante. ... (Original Music Composer)

2019

Ricercar ... (Music)
La Messa di Bach ... (Original Music Composer)
La Femme qui pleure dans les nuages ... (Music)

2018

The Piano Forest ... (Music)
Le Prochain ... (Original Music Composer)
Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Sir András Schiff ... (Compositor)

2017

Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla ... (Original Music Composer)
Johannes-Passion ... (Sound)
Charpentier: Te Deum, Bach: Magnificat ... (Original Music Composer)

2016

Ever Forward ... (Music)
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street ... (Music)
La Passione : Bach / Castellucci ... (Original Music Composer)
OSN: Biondi-Pergolesi-Bach ... (Original Music Composer)
Roger D'Astous ... (Music)

2015

Podium Witteman
Andrea Bacchetti in Concert ... (Original Music Composer)
OSN: La Messa in si minore di Bach con Ottavio Dantone ... (Original Music Composer)
Pappano e l'Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Sciarrino - Bach ... (Original Music Composer)
Piedad: una roca va al psiquiatra ... (Music)
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem ... (Music)
OSN: Dantone-Bach ... (Original Music Composer)
Un ... (Music)

2014

Bach: St. John Passion ... (Original Music Composer)
J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio ... (Original Music Composer)

2013

Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili ... (Music)
Father and Son on a Journey ... (Music)
Christmas with Johann Sebastian Bach ... (Compositors)

2012

Christmas Oratorio ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach Matthäus-Passion ... (Compositor)

2011

Corelli Bach Haendel ... (Original Music Composer)
András Schiff plays Bach ... (Music)

2010

The Destiny ... (Music)
Bach: St. Matthew Passion ... (Original Music Composer)

2009

Concerto diretto da John Axelrod ... (Original Music Composer)

2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Work ... (Music)

2007

Fermat's Room ... (Music)
Revisiting Solaris ... (Music)
Cyber ... (Music)
Lapsus ... (Original Music Composer)
Bach The Cello Suites ... (Compositor)

2006

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ... (Music)
A View from Space With Heavenly Music ... (Music)

2004

Three Leaders ... (Original Music Composer)

2003

Saraband ... (Music)
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend ... (Music)
Slow Bistro ... (Original Music Composer)
Uto Ughi - Bach ... (Original Music Composer)

2000

The Ninth Hour ... (Music)
With Closed Eyes ... (Music)

1999

Pozo de zorro ... (Music)

1998

Invention in A Minor for Two Voices ... (Music)

1997

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht: The Kaffee Kantate - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir ... (Music)
Badinerie z II Suity orkiestrowej h-moll BWV 1067 ... (Music)

1996

Christmas ... (Original Music Composer)

1995

Christophe Coin, le musicien ... (Music)

1994

The Saint Matthew Passion ... (Music)
Toccata z Fugi i Toccata d-moll BWV 565 ... (Music)

1993

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero ... (Music)
Oh, Woe Is Me ... (Music)
The End of the World ... (Additional Music)
Cage ... (Music)
Ein Moment - Vorbei - Ein Film ... (Music)

1992

Benny's Video ... (Music)

1991

100 Days Before the Command ... (Music)
Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk ... (Music)

1990

Auf dem Weg ... (Music)
Variationen 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train ... (Music)
Variationen 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
Postadresse: 2640 Schlöglmühl ... (Music)
Mozart, Handel, Bach ... (Original Music Composer)

1989

De l'autre côté ... (Music)
Sonata for Hitler ... (Music)
J'écris dans l'espace ... (Music)
2 Variationen ... (Original Music Composer)

1988

King Lear ... (Music)
The Last Word ... (Music)
The Power of Speech ... (Music)

1987

Love Conquers All ... (Music)
Inner Life ... (Music)
Teufelszeug ... (Music)

1985

Hail Mary ... (Music)
Kinderfilm ... (Music)
Soldiers Without Guns ... (Music)
J. S. Bach Koncert E dur pro housle a smyčcový orchestr ... (Original Music Composer)

1984

The Bear ... (Music)

1983

Bach Brandenburg Concertos & Coffee Cantata ... (Compositors)
The Sheik of Araby ... (Original Music Composer)

1982

The Man Who Saved the World ... (Music)
The Selfish Giant ... (Music)

1981

Katso ihmistä ... (Music)
Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl ... (Music)
The Cosmic Machine ... (Music)

1980

El tigre ... (Music)
The Encounter ... (Music)

1979

Tale of Tales ... (Music)
The Hunt ... (Music)

1978

1977

Fraude matrimonial ... (Music)
Gabriel ... (Music)
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach ... (Original Music Composer)

1976

Convicted ... (Music)
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream ... (Music)

1975

Mirror ... (Music)
An Imperial Message ... (Music)
J. S. Bach: Koncert d moll pro dvoje housle a smyčce ... (Original Music Composer)

1973

Opis obyczajów ... (Music)

1972

Temptation of Eros ... (Music)
Pilate and Others ... (Music)
Dear Janice ... (Original Music Composer)

1971

Eros Schedule Book: Female Artist ... (Music)

1970

Adelheid ... (Music)
Migration ... (Music)

1969

The Dependent ... (Music)
Umano Non Umano ... (Original Music Composer)
Spheres ... (Music)
A Random Bomb ... (Music)
The Last Summer ... (Music)

1967

Bach to Bach ... (Music)
Resan ... (Music)
Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung ... (Music)
The Great Rehearsals: When a Man Dedicates His Life to Music ... (Music)

1966

Master ... (Music)
Love Stories of the Pale Night ... (Original Music Composer)

1965

J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor ... (Music)
Le testament de Mr Breggins ... (Compositor)

1964

Sabath ... (Music)
Rachunek sumienia ... (Music)

1963

A Long Silence ... (Music)
Tales for Grown Ups ... (Music)

1962

Los 4 Golpes ... (Original Music Composer)

1961

Accattone ... (Music)
Passion ... (Music)

1957

Deseo de Cristal ... (Music)

1955

Eine Melodie - vier Maler ... (Original Music Composer)

1952

Young Chopin ... (Music)

1948

Romance sin palabras ... (Original Music Composer)

1946

Henri Matisse ... (Music)

1941

Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry ... (Music)

1940

Fantasia ... (Music)

1937

Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) ... (Original Music Composer)

1932

The Stone Wonders of Naumburg ... (Original Music Composer)