The first sentence of Bach's dedication reads:

However, the building was not completed until 1751, and Bach's death in July, 1750 prevented his Mass from being submitted for use at the dedication.

The dedication of the new campus was marked by a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor at the Princeton University Chapel with the Westminster Choir, soloists, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

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.

It was on Bach's recommendation that in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years.

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.

In light of Bach's responsibility to provide music to four churches and be able to perform double choir compositions with a substitute for each voice, Joshua Rifkin concludes that Bach's music was normally written with one voice per part in mind.

Bach's " The Art of Fugue " in his hometown Leipzig, and their interpretation of the work was released on the album LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE in 2008.

The composer who most influenced Bach's maturing style was unquestionably his father Sebastian.

The publisher was Bach's friend Balthasar Schmid of Nuremberg.

Forkel's anecdote ( which is likely to be true, given that he was able to interview Bach's sons ), suggests fairly clearly that Bach meant the Quodlibet to be a joke.

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

One of the last compositions orchestrated for the mediaeval lituus was Bach's motet O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht ( BWV 118 ).

In 1985, Marshall Portnoy in the Musical Quarterly ( Oxford ) suggested that the answer to the enigma was J S Bach's The Art of Fugue.

It has been argued by a musicologist, Ursula Kirkendale that the composition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Das Musikalische Opfer ( The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 ), was closely connected with the Institutio Oratoria.

Among Bach's duties during his tenure at Leipzig ( 1723 – 50 ), was teaching Latin ; his early training included rhetoric.

In the Baroque period, the term was also occasionally used for both vocal and instrumental compositions, such as Claudio Monteverdi's Scherzi musicali ( 1607 ), Antonio Brunelli's Scherzi, Arie, Canzonette e Madrigale ( 1616 ) for voices and instruments, Johann Schenk's Scherzi musicale ( fourteen suites for gamba and continuo ) or the scherzo of Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 3 for harpsichord.

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

On the 2008 tour, Pete Way was unable to get a work visa to enter the United States, Rob De Luca ( of Sebastian Bach's band ) filling in.

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.

At his burial ceremony, the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 ( which Marceau long used as an accompaniment for an elegant mime routine ) was played, as was the sarabande of Bach's Cello Suite No. 5.

He was child prodigy: on one occasion he played Bach's complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by heart, without notice, at the age of only ten.

The meeting, taking place at the King's residence in Potsdam, came about because Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed there as court musician.

Among Bach's duties during his tenure at Leipzig ( 1723 – 50 ), was teaching Latin.

It is unknown exactly when the work was composed, but copies dated 1730 suggest it may have been composed later than the other two concertos for violin, perhaps during Bach's time as director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig.

Fair copy in Bach's own hand of the revised version of the " St Matthew Passion ", BWV 244, that is generally dated to the year 1743 – 1746

* 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 ).

* March 24 – Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concertos completed and dedicated to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Ariadne musica served as a precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, two books of 24 " prelude and fugue " pairs each.

Leopold most likely made Bach's acquaintance at the wedding of his sister Eleonore Wilhelmine to Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, which was held at his mother's estate in Nienburg on 24 January 1716.

* 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 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.

On March 27, 1900, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem presented the United States debut of German Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor in the city's Central Moravian Church.

In March, 1994, the KKB performed and recorded Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's St. Mark Passion, rediscovered in 1985.

Bach's St. John Passion was performed three times in March, 2009 ; after two concerts in the Basel Münster and the Arlesheim Dome, the KKB opened its 37th summer concert season in the Bürgel Monastery in Jena.

* 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 ).

He resumed his association with the Hallé, replacing the indisposed Sir Thomas Beecham for performances of Handel's Messiah in December 1918, Bach's B minor Mass, and Schubert's Great C Major Symphony in March 1919.

* March 25-Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle ( two movements by Bach ).

* March 30: Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle ( two movements by Bach ).

In March 2011, rumors of Bach's return to Skid Row-for a series of live shows-were facilitated and furthered by an admission from the aforesaid, stating " I wouldn't rule out some form of collaboration in the future ..."