Bach's Goldberg Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach created some of the most significant music in history, including A Keyboard Practice Consisting of an Aria with Thirty Variations for the Harpsichord commonly known as the Goldberg Variations. Goldberg is Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, a young musician in the court of Count Keyserlingk, a Russian ambassador living in Dresden. It isn t known for certain why Bach s difficult composition was named for the young man, but Anna Harwell Celenza gives us one possible story based on extensive research."