Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via ...

This spooky staple has long been associated with the horror genre, and was a go-to for scary films in the silent movie era. But what makes this work for the organ just so unsettling? Composed ...

But first, some background. The Toccata and Fugue is most commonly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but since the 1960’s, musicologists have opened the issue of authorship up for debate. And ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German musician and composer who wrote throughout the 18th Century. For most of his career, Bach worked as an organist and choirmaster at various churches throughout ...

The opening phrases of JS Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor represent an iconic moment in musical history. So too did Francis Monkman’s performance of those phrases on Top Of The Pops in 1980, when ...

Bach’s nine-minute-long composition is one of the best-known pieces for organ – but it also sounds super-eerie on glass harp. This musician – Robert Tiso on YouTube – has worked out how to play Bach’s ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...

Ever since it was featured in the soundtrack of the 1931 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor has been the unofficial anthem of Halloween. In fact, classical music in ...

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds ...