The music of JS Bach was the high point and culmination of the Baroque period of music. He is arguably the most important and influential composer of western art music as almost every subsequent composer looked to Bach's music for instruction and inspiration. The class will present the many genres of music for which Bach is so well-known: organ, keyboard, chamber, orchestral, cantatas, the St. Matthew Passion and Mass in b minor. No technical musical background is necessary; only a desire to hear and enjoy some of the most profound, powerful, and complex music ever composed. 

Although the course is no charge, there is a $10 fee to cover our administrative time. 

Subject: music 

Derald DeYoung is a Professor of Music Emeritus from Calvin University where he taught for 27 years before moving to Estes Park, Colorado in 2005. Over the past 18 years, Dr. DeYoung has been leading music study courses at the Estes Valley Library that have covered the compositions of Stravinsky, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Strauss, and many others.