Mieczyslaw Horoszowski and Andr?Schiff?s

Bach to Bach: An Old Man's Vision and a Young Man's Promise Kept

by C. Michael Bailey
January 11, 2004

Johann Sebastian Bach is considered the leading Baroque composer with only fellow German G.F. Handel to contend with for the title. To be sure, Bach was a transfiguring muse for the music pioneered by Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Heinrich Sch?nd Archangelo Corelli. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany March 21, 1685, where he was taught violin and harpsichord by his father Johann Ambrosius Bach, who was the court trumpeter in the service of the Duke of Eisenach. Orphaned at age ...