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 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

* The Goldberg Variations made new-Review of Glenn Gould's and Simone Dinnerstein's renditions

Elias Gottlob Haussmann | Haussmann's portrait of Bach depicts him holding the manuscript to BWV 1076, which is also the thirteenth canon in the Goldberg Canon cycle.

Jarvis proposes that Anna Magdalena wrote the six Cello Suites, and was involved with the composition of the aria from the Goldberg Variations ( BWV 988 ).

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.

Another well-known piece, this is the aria of the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.

Associate Professor Martin Jarvis of the School of Music at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, claims that she composed the famed six cello suites ( BWV 1007 – 1012 ) and was involved with the composition of the aria from the Goldberg Variations ( BWV 988 ), a claim which is dismissed more recently by Yo Tomita.

Goldberg Variations, BWV 1087: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Rudolf Serkin ( piano ); Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Ornulf Gulbransen ( flute ), Ruth Laredo ( continuo ); Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Henry Nowak, Wilmer Wise, Louis Opalesky ( trumpets ), John Mack, Patricia Grignet ( oboes ), John Wyre ( timpani ), Ruth Laredo ( continuo ); Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals.

The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.

Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year.

He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

Predating Goldberg, the corresponding term in the UK was, and still is, " Heath Robinson ", after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery ( although Heath Robinson's creations did not have the same emphasis on the sequential or chain reaction element ).

In the 1962 John Wayne movie Hatari !, an invention to catch monkeys by character Pockets, played by Red Buttons, is described as a " Rube Goldberg.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

* April – The light switch is invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.

A written disclaimer, similar to the words spoken by Goldberg in Volume 3, is shown at the beginning of each DVD in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Volume 5, and Volume 6 sets, as well as the Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn Looney Tunes Super Stars sets:

Frank Owen Gehry, ( born Frank Owen Goldberg ; February 28, 1929 ) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.

Whoopi Goldberg (, born Caryn Elaine Johnson ; November 13, 1945 is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.

* P. J. P. Goldberg ( 2004 ), Medieval England 1250 – 1550: A Social History, ISBN 0-340-57745-2 ; Chapter 13 is devoted to the Peasants ' Revolt.

Often there is a menacing outside force that remains a mystery ; in The Birthday Party, for example, Goldberg and McCann confront Stanley, torture him with absurd questions, and drag him off at the end, but it is never revealed why.

tells the story of a young school girl who is not afraid to fight for her rights and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masembuko ( Goldberg ) is imprisoned.

Adele Goldberg is the name of:

* Shenzi ( Timon & Pumbaa, The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure, Kingdom Hearts II ) ( Shenzi is usually voiced by Whoopi Goldberg )

* The last ( thirtieth ) variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations is a quodlibet.