Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

* 1741: Goldberg Variations for harpsichord published by Bach

She translated this novel into English as The Goldberg Variations ( 1996 ).

* The Goldberg Variations ( 1996 )

Title page of the Goldberg Variations ( first edition )

The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.

The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.

Rather unusually for Bach's works, the Goldberg Variations were published in his own lifetime, in 1741.

Peter Williams opines in Bach: The Goldberg Variations that this is not the theme at all, but actually the first variation ( a view emphasising the idea of the work as a chaconne rather than a piece in true variation form ).

As with all canons of the Goldberg Variations ( except the 27th variation, canon at the ninth ), there is a supporting bass line here.

In 1974, when scholars discovered Bach's own copy of the first printing of the Goldberg Variations, they noted that over this variation Bach had added the heading al tempo di Giga.

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

Commenting on the structure of the canons of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould cited this variation as the extreme example of " deliberate duality of motivic emphasis [...] the canonic voices are called upon to sustain the passacaille role which is capriciously abandoned by the bass.

Wanda Landowska famously described this variation as " the black pearl " of the Goldberg Variations.

It was found in 1974, in Strasbourg ( Alsace, France ), forming an appendix to Bach's personal printed edition of the Goldberg Variations.

The Goldberg Variations have been reworked freely by many performers, changing either the instrumentation, the notes, or both.

* Werner Schweer The Goldberg Variations, MuseScore Edition created for the Open Goldberg Variations Project and released as public domain.

* Goldberg Variations discography

Edition of the Goldberg Variations.

Bach: The Goldberg Variations.

* Goldberg Variations BWV 988 / 1087, Oregon Bach Festival

Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple ( 1985 ) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South.

Changes were made following the 2001 – 02 season ; Goldberg, along with Moffitt and Lee, left the series.

In addition to those departures, regular panelist Caroline Rhea also left the program in order to host her short-lived successor program to The Rosie O ' Donnell Show and Bruce Vilanch, who was also one of the show's writers, left with Goldberg ( who had hired him ) and made several infrequent appearances throughout the rest of the series.

Their first machine, Goldberg, completed in 1947, used a crude drum made by gluing magnetic tape to the surface of a large metal cylinder that could be spun at 50 RPM for reading ( and much slower for writing ).

In an effort to improve the quality of their Swiss rolls, they hired the food expert Nat Goldberg, who made a major improvement across their entire cake range, which had lost the public's favour a few years earlier.

However, while in the Goldberg Variations Bach deprived himself of the resources available from taking the melody of the theme as a guiding principle, thereby gaining an independence in melodic matters that enabled him to attain far more variety and expanse, Beethoven made no such sacrifice.

In 1957, Gertrude Berg made her last two appearances as Molly Goldberg: first on an episode of the NBC-TV variety series Washington Square with Ray Bolger, and then on a Kate Smith special that aired on ABC-TV.

* Cog ( 2003 ) — a Honda television commercial featuring a complex Rube Goldberg machine made with Honda parts, utilising ideas from The Way Things Go ; accused of plagiarism

* Ruffles Max Machine ( May 2012 ) — a Ruffles internet commercial featuring a Rube Goldberg machine made by Wanda Digital Agency, produced by Kaporta Film.

* MythBusters made a Rube Goldberg Machine in their 2006 Christmas Special that concludes in dumping the crash test dummy Buster on the floor.

Popular examples include the Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite, BWV 1068 ( of which Air on the G String is an arrangement for violin and piano made in the 19th century by August Wilhelmj ) and the Goldberg Aria with variations, BWV 988, a baroque clavier work, both composed by and the Air from Water Music, in the Suite in F Major, HWV 348, by George Frideric Handel.

" Down the Road a Piece " was recorded with a pared-down trio called the " Will Bradley Trio ," made up of McKinley, Doc Goldberg, and Freddie Slack, with guest vocals by songwriter Don Raye.

Comedians Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg also made early appearances at the venue.

* Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is made.

In 1984, while teaching a seminar at Boston University School of Law, Goldberg addressed the question of his resignation, stating that he was persuaded to leave the Court for the United Nations based on certain promises made by President Johnson.

And it can be inferred from the incorporation of the words secure and recognized boundaries that the territorial adjustments to be made by the parties in their peace settlements could encompass less than a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories by Goldberg.

As a curtain jerker he made history on September 22, 1997, when he became the first wrestler to lose a televised match to Bill Goldberg.

Goldberg's main event match with Hogan on the July 6, 1998 edition of Nitro from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta won the ratings battle from WWF for the week, but some observers ( including Vince McMahon ) felt that WCW could have made millions if they saved the Goldberg / Hogan match for an eventual pay-per-view event.

An article in The Guardian noted that Goldberg's use of the phrase during the time before the Iraq War made it " acceptable in official diplomatic channels around the globe ", and Slates Chris Suellentrop commented in January 2003 that Goldberg made " cheese-eating surrender monkeys " the " rallying cry of Francophobes everywhere " in the time that led to the war in Iraq.

McPeak was harshly criticized by American Spectator journalist Robert Goldberg for comments and writings he has made regarding Israel.

Three weeks later, Batista made his return during a match between Goldberg and Michaels and attacked the champion, finishing by stomping on a steel chair with Goldberg's ankle sandwiched in it to claim the bounty.

The decision was made to turn Page heel, and the turn took place on the Nitro following his title win in a match against Goldberg.

Nash came to the ring and made a challenge for a four-way match for the title, and the just-dethroned Page joined defending champion Sting and Goldberg in the match.