Freebase logoSearch * Home * Data * Apps * Discuss * Help * Please sign in or register to contributeLoading...Search ResultsNarrow Results * delete * TypeItems 1 - 30 of 60+ * Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Book Subject, Songwriter, Influence Node, Composer, Lyricist, Broadcast Artist Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation in composition for diverse musical forces, and the adaptation of rhythms... * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was one of the founders of the Classical style, composing in the Rococo and Classical periods. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar, Germany. When he was ten years old he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, where his father had become cantor in 1723, and continued his education as a student of jurisprudence... * Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Composer Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living there. He is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart. Johann Christian Bach was born on September 5, 1735 to Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena Bach in Leipzig, Germany. His distinguished father was already 50 at the time of his... * Sebastian Bach Sebastian Bach Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member Sebastian Bach (born Sebastian Philip Bierk, on April 3, 1968) is a Canadian heavy metal singer, best known as ex-frontman of Skid Row. Born in Freeport, Bahamas, and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, he attended nearby Lakefield College School. He currently resides in Middletown, New Jersey. He and his wife, Maria Bierk, have two sons, Paris and London. His son Paris is the drummer of New Jersey Metal band Severed Hand, who have opened up for him on occasion and were also featured on the Vh1... * P.D.Q. Bach P.D.Q. Bach Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Songwriter, Composer, Lyricist Johann Peter Schickele (born July 17 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa to Alsatian immigrant parents, and brought up in Washington, D.C. and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson. Graduating from Fargo Central High in 1952 and then graduating with a degree in music from Swarthmore College in 1957, the first student at... * Bach Bach Bach (pronounced Batch, with the alternative of Crib in the southern part of New Zealand) is the name given in New Zealand to structures akin to small, often very modest holiday homes or beach houses. They are an iconic part of New Zealand history and culture, especially in the middle of the 20th century, where they symbolized the beach holiday lifestyle that was becoming more accessible to the middle class. "Bach" was originally short for bachelor pad, but actually they often tended to be a... * Howard Bach Howard Bach Person, Olympic athlete Howard Bach is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in men's doubles with Tony Gunawan. He was born in Vietnam on 22 February 1979 , Howard Bach came to the U.S. at the age of two, when his father, Cam Sen Bach, emigrated to San Francisco with his family in 1982. From 1991-1993, he attended Marina Middle School in San Francisco. When he was five years old, Howard Bach was brought by his father to the Golden Gate YMCA in San... * Joe Bach Person, Football coach, Football player Joe Bach was one of Notre Dame's famed "seven mules" and later an NFL coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. At Notre Dame he was a defensive lineman on the 1924 National Title team--the first Irish team to win a championship, and had a pivotal role in Notre Dame's first Rose Bowl trip. He became the Steelers coach in 1935 directing the young franchise to their best record yet at 4 wins and 8 losses followed by the 1936 campaign in which he coached the Steelers to their first ever non-losing... * Richard Bach Person, Author Richard David Bach (b. June 23,1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah and others. His books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in... * Catherine Bach Catherine Bach Person, Film actor, TV Actor, Musical Artist Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman on March 1, 1954) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and for playing Margo Dutton in African Skies. Bach's first screen appearance was in the Burt Lancaster murder mystery, The Midnight Man, shot in Upstate South Carolina in 1973, in which she played the murdered coed, Natalie Claiburn. It was released in June 1974. Her next role was Melody in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and... * Charles Gounod Charles Gounod Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, Composer, Film music contributor Charles-François Gounod (; June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his opera Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father. His mother was his first piano teacher. Under her tutelage, Gounod first showed his musical talents. He entered the Paris Conservatoire where he studied under Fromental Halévy. He won the Prix de Rome in 1839 for his cantata Ferdinand. He subsequently... * Switched-On Bach Switched-On Bach Musical Album Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) and Benjamin Folkman, released in 1968 by CBS Records. It played a key role in popularising classical music performed on electronic synthesizers, which had theretofore been relegated to experimental and "pop" music. This fostered a significant increase in interest in electronically-rendered music in general, and the Moog synthesizer in particular. The album was among the first classical albums to sell 500,000 copies, and... * Barbara Bach Barbara Bach Film actor, Person Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model, best-known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to musician Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles. Bach was born Barbara Goldbach in Queens, New York, the daughter of Marjorie and Howard Goldbach, a policeman. She was the oldest of five children. Her father was Austria Jew and her mother was Irish Catholic, and she attended a Catholic high school, Dominican Commercial in... * Bach City/Town, Location, Dated location, Statistical region Bach is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany. * Bach To Bach Musical Album * Bach and Bagels Musical Album * Johnny Bach Person, Basketball Coach, Basketball Player John William (Johnny) Bach (born July 10 1924 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former professional basketball player and current coach. A 6'2" forward/guard, Bach played collegiately at Fordham University and Brown. He was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1948 Basketball Association of America (BAA) Draft, and played 24 games for the Celtics. In 1950 he became one of the nation's youngest head coaches at a major college when he took over the coaching job at Fordham. He spent 18 years there,... * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (November 22, 1710 – July 1, 1784), eldest son and pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a German composer and musician whose troubled personality and erratic career made him considerably less influential than his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, despite his acknowledged talents as an organist, improviser and composer in the galant, or Rococo, style of the mid 18th century. Born in Weimar and educated at Leipzig, he was appointed in 1733 organist of St. Sophia... * BACH motif BACH motif In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. Bach's use of this cruciform melody in reference to himself extended to its inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion, and all transpositions thereof. This four-note motif has been used by a number of composers, usually as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. The first known example, however, is in a piece by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in the 17th century—it is possible, though not certain, that he used it in homage to... * Dirk Bach Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member Dirk Bach (23 April 1961 in Cologne) is a German television comedy actor, best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesamstraße and as an actor in television series Lukas. After school Bach worked in theatres in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York City, Utrecht and Vienna. In 1992 Bach was part of the theatre group in Cologne at the Schauspielhaus and appeared on the German television channel RTL on the Dirk Bach Show. Bach performed in Lukas (1996-2001) on the German television channel... * Pentre-bach railway station Location Pentrebach railway station is a railway station serving the villages of Pentrebach and Abercanaid in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It is located on the Merthyr branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales. The station was first opened by the Taff Vale Railway in 1886. * Radio Deliro Radio Deliro Editorial Topic, Broadcast Content French varieties, before 70s jazz and blues, 15% of J.S. Bach and 10% of uncommon * John Bach Person, TV Actor, Film actor John Bach (born June 5, 1946) is a Welsh-born actor who has spent most of his career working in New Zealand. His best known role internationally is Madril in the two last movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003), but he has substantial television credits in New Zealand, including the title role of Detective Inspector John Duggan in the police crime series Duggan, a regular character in the long-running soap opera Close to Home and a recurring character in the Australian TV... * Leroy Bach Film actor, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member LeRoy Bach was involved in the recording of Wilco's 1999 album Summerteeth, and was named an official member of the group before the release of 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In January of 2004, Wilco announced on the band's web site that Bach was leaving the band. Previously Bach was involved with The Dishes, 5ive Style and leader of Uptighty, a premier Chicago funk band. He performed in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World" playing guitar at the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. He also... * Bach Sonatas Musical Album * Bach Multi-Part Musical Release, Musical Release, Creative Work * Johann Christoph Bach Musical Artist, Composer, Deceased Person, Person Johann Christoph Bach (December 6, 1642 – March 31, 1703), was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's great uncle, hence he was Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J. S. Bach's first wife. Johann Christoph had a reputation as a composer that was only equalled by that of Johann Sebastian within the Bach family during his lifetime. He was organist at Eisenach and... * Mynydd-Bach Mynydd-Bach Location Mynyddbach is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, South Wales. It does not have its own community council. Mynydd-Bach is bounded by the wards of Morriston and Landore to the east, Cwmbwrla to the south, and Llangyfelach and Penderry to the west. The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Clase, Clasemont, Mynydd-Bach, Park View Estate, Penfillia Estate, Treboeth, Tirdeunaw, Pinewood, Mynydd Garnlywd and Bryn Rock... * W-BACH W-BACH Radio Station, Broadcaster W-BACH is a network of FM radio stations in Maine owned by Nassau Broadcasting. The network consists of WBQQ 99.3 Kennebunk, WBQW 106.3 Scarborough, WBQX 106.9 Thomaston and WBQI 107.7 Bar Harbor. Currently the stations are a classical music format. WBQQ was the original WBACH station in Maine, signing on in November, 1991. WBQW signed on the air in 1974 as WJBQ (No relation to the current WJBQ in Portland) changing calls to WDCS and classical in September 1981 involving a frequency swap... * Bach's Adagios Musical Album * Kristina Bach Person, Musical Artist, Musical Group Member Kristina Bach (born Kerstin Bräuer on 7 April 1962 in Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German "Schlager" singer, lyric and music producer. Bach is noted for her 3 ½-octave vocal range. Bach was 13 years old when she won her first talent contest. She later studied vocal music and dance as well as piano and guitar. In addition, she took drama courses, after which she hosted a number of television programmes. Her singing career began in the early 1980s when she was discovered. 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