Bach's arrangements of hymn tunes found their way into cantatas, organ preludes, motets and other pieces. Find out more about them here. A chorale is usually a simple and catchy melody to which a hymn ...

As was customary in the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, Bach died at home, probably on the second floor of the cantor’s apartments in the Thomasschule, in his own bedroom above the Thomasplatz. A ...