* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

For example, composer Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion, composed in the 1720s, was appropriated by the Nazi regime in the 1930s for propaganda.

* March 11, 1829 – Felix Mendelssohn performs Bach's St Matthew Passion.

* March 23 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's First Köthen Funeral music at the St. James Church, Köthen in the evening in honor of the Funeral of his former employer Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

* March 24 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday at the St. James Church, Köthen ( for the same event as above ).

* April 15 Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* April 11 – Première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion ( BWV 244b ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

* April 19 – Premiere of the first Leipzig version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche BWV deest BC D 5b at the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig

* March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 ( including 5 movements from his " Weimarer Passion ") at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

Bach's St Matthew Passion that " started me off ".

Naarden hosts the bi-annual Naarden Photo Festival and, on Good Friday, a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the local church, which is called the Great Church or St. Vitus Church.

He attended a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion when he was aged 12 and was deeply affected.

Their preferred repertoire overlapped in some of the classics, but Mengelberg had his own favourites from Bach's St. Matthew Passion to Mahler symphonies, and was happy to leave Debussy and Stravinsky to Monteux.

He also became very distinguished in works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, including A Sea Symphony, Dona Nobis Pacem, Sancta Civitas and Five Tudor Portraits ; in those of Edward Elgar, especially The Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom, and The Apostles ; in Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion ; and in Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Richard Adeney performed in notable recordings, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, which was recorded under Britten's baton, or in his St Matthew Passion conducted by David Willcocks.

* The performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion

In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

Bach's music.

With theological insight, he interpreted the use of pictorial and symbolical representation in J. S. Bach's religious music.

In 1899 he astonished Widor by explaining figures and motifs in Bach's Chorale Preludes as painter-like tonal and rhythmic imagery illustrating themes from the words of the hymns on which they were based.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Schweitzer's interpretative approach greatly influenced the modern understanding of Bach's music.

Bach's music, for whose concerts Schweitzer took the organ part regularly until 1913.

Schweitzer, who insisted that the score should show Bach's notation with no additional markings, wrote the commentaries for the Preludes and Fugues, and Widor those for the Sonatas and Concertos: six volumes were published in 1912 – 14.

Sir Donald Tovey dedicated his conjectural completion of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge ( Art of the Fugue ) to Schweitzer.

An interesting case is made by that Bach's " Eight Little Preludes and Fugues ", now thought to be spurious, may actually be authentic.

As Speerstra and also note, the compass of the keyboard parts of Bach's six organ trio sonatas BWV 525 – 530 rarely go below the tenor C, so could have been played on a single manual pedal clavichord, by moving the left hand down an octave, a customary practice in the 18th century.

J. S. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a great proponent of the instrument, and most of his German contemporaries regarded it as a central keyboard instrument, for performing, teaching, composing and practicing.

The city is the birthplace of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach.

Bach's parents were married in 1668 in a small church, the Kaufmannskirche ( Merchant's Church ), that still exists on the main square, Anger.

After the Bach revival, Telemann's works were judged as inferior to Bach's and lacking in religious fervour.

Bach's Six Little Preludes ( Bach )# Little_Prelude_in_C_major. 2C_BWV_933 | Little Prelude in C major being played on a harpsichord.

* Concordance covering all Bach's vocal works recorded by John Eliot Gardiner

" His recordings of Bach's Mass in B Minor and St. John Passion are frequently counted among the finest of these works to use large choral and orchestral forces.

The Museum of Non-Objective Painting ( later, The Guggenheim ) commissioned him to synchronize a film with a march by John Philip Sousa in order to demonstrate loyalty to America, and then insisted that he make a film to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, even though he wanted to make a film without sound in order to affirm the integrity of his non-objective imagery.

The following year he made his debut in the Vienna Musikverein, singing the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion and tenor solos in the St John Passion under Peter Schreier.

He recorded Bach's St John Passion with Helmuth Rilling.

* March 30-Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion ( BWV 245, BC D 2b BWV 245a, b, and c ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig ( using parts from his Weimarer Passion ).

In 1943 Haefliger sang for the first time the Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion in Zurich.

Under his leadership the orchestra issued ( for the Decca label ) numerous recordings, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s, and mostly of Bach's output ; these included the Brandenburg Concertos ( three times ), the orchestral suites, the St. Matthew Passion, the St. John Passion, the Musical Offering, and the Christmas Oratorio.

Apocalypse is performed in Frankfurt in 1926 under Otto Klemperer with Erbe ( an allusion to Karl Erb, the famous Evangelist of Bach's St Matthew Passion ) as the St John narrator.

Next was Bach's St. John Passion and Mozart's Requiem in 1999.

Lewis-Smith and he, now credited as co-producer, editor and Tonmeister, also collaborate on BBC Two's 21st Century Bach, which features historically-informed performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's works by organist John Scott-Whiteley, using European organs with connections to Bach.

Famous examples include Bach's Mass in B Minor, the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, and nearly all of Mozart's operas.

John Eliot Gardiner called Bach's setting of Luthers hymn " a bold, innovative piece of musical drama " and observes " Bach drawing on medieval musical roots ( the hymn tune

In 1991 he appeared in Bach's St John Passion, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe in Antwerp.

He sang Bach's St John Passion in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig.

The recording of Bach's St John Passion conducted by Philippe Herreweghe on which Andreas Scholl sings was nominated for a Cannes Classical Award in 2003.

At the Cathedral he directed and designed the Mummer's Play for the Boar's Head Festival, directed plays for the Feast of St. Francis, provided staging for Bach's St. John Passion and the visual finale for Paul Winter's Carnival.

She has recorded extensively, for example as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ( with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1994 ), with the choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion, as Venus in John Blow ’ s Venus and Adonis with Philip Pickett, and in Monteverdi's L ' Incoronazione di Poppea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.