Music Gifts and More Music Gifts ... Related to the Subject Johann Sebastian Bach 

"Bach Gifts, Bach Gifts, Bach Gifts" is what we wanted to call this page in the beginning, but "Music Gifts and more Music Gifts" seemed better to us in the end. You might have already noticed: All our websites about music and Bach have a very characteristic style of their own.  That is – so to speak – our style. And because that's the way it is, we'd like to start off with a little "instruction manual" and a note that you won't find 33 Bach calendars in this, our style, anywhere else on the internet. Except at "Bach 4 You", the shop of the Renate Bach Publishing House. You should know that ... that's what we thought. Unfortunately, you can't get these 33 Bach calendars in bookstores either, and not at Amazon. One yes, but not the other 32. And so it is the same with 27 composers calendars and also with 28 music calendars. But music calendars and composers calendars, they play ... at least here on this page ... actually ... no role at all.

Bach Gifts, Really Many Bach Gifts: the "Manual" for You Related to this Page of My Website

Order gifts and gifts "briefly look at before", this is possible – very quickly – with one click here. In fact, with your click you are directly in the shop, choose a subject, and you are already at the selection. For example, you will find there are not only one music calendar, but "really quite a lot" of music calendars. More precisely? 99, as already mentioned above. On the subject of Bach, on the subject of composers, on the subject of music and on the subject of music for children. These are then the "music gifts and more music gifts".

To read about these many music gifts and to learn what is special about many of them, how some developed from the idea to the gift ... and that with a lot of time, leisure and fun: You can do that if you – on this page further down – "stay on board" with us. Nowhere on this page do we immediately "get to the point". Although, you can always leave the page. No, not disappear completely, that's not what we mean.  But, you can, if you are excited about a gift, or if you have found a category of gifts, of which you are now interested in the individual offers, click to the store.

So if you have that time and leisure now - or later - then read on now: musician gifts about musician gifts ... on the subject of Johann Sebastian Bach.  And with the books we want to start this, with our own Bach books of course at the very beginning. Have fun!

Yours Renate Bach

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Music Gifts and My Philosophy

To this gift page the background, and that in very few words: Johann Sebastian Bach is fun for us! For my husband and me. He likes writing and I like researching Bach's genealogy. "Bach on Bach" is the name of my husband's cross-media project about our common mission in the matter of Johann Sebastian Bach. In fact, we have set ourselves the task of publishing the work, life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. In order to be able to compensate at least partially for the costs of many illustrations, Bach stamps, historical documents, for travel, for the narrators of the videos, for overnight stays and for translations, I have thought about how we could continue to pay for the project ... also in order to be able one day to "manage" completely different projects in the matter of Bach. To offer gifts, not gifts from me to you – but gifts from you to your loved ones, to friends, to acquaintances, to customers or business partners – this seemed to be a good idea to me ... as any museum does. As well as any museum does. Also, practically all Bach institutions.

With the purchase of one of the gifts, which could be the perfect present for fans of Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as for kids, who are indirectly and carefully introduced to the " subject Bach" as well as "classical music" with such gifts, you directly support this project of my husband and our common mission. Of course, we hope – like every institution, only we without public support – to be able to finance our further research and the expansion of the project on an international basis.

I would like to offer gifts on the subject of "Johann Sebastian Bach" quite deliberately internationally, because Bach is not nearly as well known beyond the entire English-speaking world as he is in Great Britain, the USA and even in Germany today. Particularly in China and throughout Asia, classical music and thus also the work of Johann Sebastian Bach is meeting with ever greater interest. Especially through gifts, for example through the international Bach Coloring Book, the Bach Biography for Children and through the internet, my husband and I want to address this enormous number of people on two very different "channels" and inspire them for the work, the life and especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach: I with my publishing house Bach 4 You, so exactly the Renate Bach Publishing House and the many Bach gifts and music calendars, he with his Bach on Bach Project ... together simply our common "Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Mission". 

Meanwhile, There Are 33 Bach Calendars

Bach calendars and more Bach calendars, but of course there are not only Bach calendars. And these are then exactly 396 monthly sheets. Do you want to explore them now? Click here to get to the store.

A Mozart calendar on a page about Bach gifts? Simply ... right! Perhaps you will like the Mozart Calendar? Unlike the publisher's 33 composers calendars, three of them are devoted exclusively to one composer. Except, of course ... the 33 Bach calendars. In them, there's only Bach. In the Mozart calendar above and the Beethoven calendar and the Luther calendar below, there is "only" Mozart, Beethoven, and Luther.

In the 2024 Beethoven Calendar there are twelve Beethoven motifs.

Exclusively Luther motifs are present in the Luther Calendar: three sizes, two styles, 2024 + 2025.

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Bach Books and More Bach Books

Did you know that there are about 700 Bach biographies alone that have been published in 270 years? The most important historical biographies can still be bought today as new, that is to say not used. However, two of the best ones are only available used on the German market and in German anymore. Of course, at "Bach 4 You". What's special for the English-speaking market: The first one, the biography by Klaus Eidam is what you can still buy as a new copy. At Barnes & Noble with the keywords "Eidam" and "Hoyt Rogers" (... the translator.): "The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach". The other one, the "Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach" is what we can't find for you anywhere, even as a used product. Although it is no true biography it's probably the best sold book about Bach. Both publications are the opposite of "hard to digest".

Books are and have always been perfect gifts. Whether on paper – as for centuries – or now more and more as eBooks or also as audiobooks. With us additionally also with music and without music, with much music or with exaggerated much music. A gift of "Bach on Bach" in many variations. But first we are talking about real books here. On paper. Printed in high quality. Offset of course. Valuably bound with thread. And of course ... with a ribbon. Cutely illustrated. And pedagogically valuable written for children.

Writing a "real" book. With pictures and illustrations. That is the dream of many people, and it was also my husband's. In April 2014, this dream then became reality and since the beginning of May 2015, you can now also buy it: the biography about Johann Sebastian Bach for children. It is the perfect gift for the smaller of the potential future Bach fans on earth. For the very youngest, however, the coloring book is of course better: on paper ... of course ... and with a mini Bach biography, perhaps the shortest in the whole world. 

After all, there are three segments within the paper book offer of "Bach 4 You". There are exactly those books that I publish myself in the Renate Bach Verlag (... the Renate Bach Publishing House) and I offer them in my publishing house shop. My husband wrote them, I put them together ... and now we put the cute and exciting results to your heart: All variants are perfect as gifts, because they aren't one thing , they are not overloaded with technical and scientific information.

The second group of books in the store are the books that I think are the best "in their discipline". So please note: These are just two books that I personally think are cool. So please note: these are just two books that I personally think are cool.  Subjectively. My opinion. These two Bach books out of now over 54,000 Bach publications, about 700 of which are biographies alone. These two Bach books out of now over 54,000 Bach publications, about 700 of which are biographies alone. Finally, there are very few other books that are top, which the publisher does not offer itself. Except for a third book for Bach fans by Helga Brück. In general, there are many kinds of Bach books: books for children, factual and technical biographies, highly exciting biographies, historical biographies, then novels, lovely literature as a biography genre, and of course the Bach travel guides. I won't introduce you to what I personally recommend. But my husband does, that is on his Bach portal "Bach on Bach".

The third category of my book offer in the shop is not quite serious. However, they are two real biographies. From one of the real greats in the matter of Johann Sebastian Bach. These small "jewels" are not intended as reading, but as a very special gift, for example instead of a bottle of wine to a Bach fan. Or as a decoration for your friends' home ... and yes ... also for your own. These are the two Bach Mini Biographies that were published in the DDR ( ... the GDR, the German Democratic Republic back then) at that time and are still in great demand today. The one small biography is already rare to find, but the very smallest is even rarer to discover. Both "books" can of course be purchased from my Publishing House.

A Bach Gift as a Medium of Our Time: The Bach Biography for Children as an Audiobook. Without Bach Music (1) , With Little Bach Music (2) and With Really a Lot of Bach Music (3)

What else is there to mention? About the audiobook variants of the Bach biography for children? There are 33 musical works that you can listen to in advance on my husband's site, at "Bach on Bach". And they are the most popular and well-known pieces by Bach. Of course, with 66 insertions, it's clear that all the works repeat at least once, at most three times. But with a running time of eight hours, this is quite deliberately intended, because as with current music, you often only like a particular piece after listening to it a second or third time. And none of the Bach works is much longer than three minutes.

Another variant of the biography about Bach for children are the electronic reading offers. On the one hand, there's the text-only book, but on the other hand, there's also the version for your tablet or smartphone. Right, or your daughter's or your son's. On the tablet version you can also see all the pictures and the cute illustrations. But of course this biography is also available as a pure reading version for your laptop or for your PC.

It was only a few years after the publication of the German biography that the English counterpart was ready, and today you can buy it as a book on paper, download it as an audiobook in three versions, or order it as an electronic version to read.

For 25 Children at the Same Time: The Real Cool Bach Kindergarten Game

This kindergarten game has its own website and of course it is especially proud of it. Just have a quick look there.

Above, these are the small coloring templates that match the sheets with the drawings. In the coloring book, they are on the opposite page. And that's why it doesn't work to just "break up" a coloring book. For multiple children. The exciting thing about this Bach kindergarten game? You – and also we – need you as a "sponsor": fellow campaigners, like-minded people or companions who want to spread Johann Sebastian Bach with us. And how does that work?

You love classical music? And you think more people should get to know the quality of this music? Then you can't start early enough. You can outsmart your own children. And also those of other parents. By getting them interested in one of the great composers. His life is told in an exciting way. Full of adventures and experiences, strokes of fate and honors. Then, perhaps, there will be a chance to inspire them a little for his music. Cautiously, of course. After all, this might work better later, when you want to learn an instrument. Bach himself was obviously of the opinion that playing the piano is not that difficult ... You just have to press the right key at the right time. Back to the plan.

So you do love classical music? And you like our idea?  Buy such a game. Take it to the kindergarten of your choice. And inquire after four weeks whether it was useful. And with that: Welcome to our International Johann Sebastian Bach Dream Team.

If you – an educator who is passionate about classical music – and our idea and the fun of 25 kids come together, what can come out of it?! By the way, the game is well-thought-out and can therefore also be played with ten children more or ten children less. And with nine and with eight and with seven and so on. Here you get directly to the game in the shop.

Bach on Canvas: Dreamlike Gifts for Your Home and Your Office

These are six of twelve motifs in the same watercolor style: The theme is the worldwide Bach monuments. Here you get to the shop once again.

If you are not enthusiastic about the "dusty" – sorry ... historical – Bach paintings, then there is certainly the right Bach for you among those above. And if not? There are many, many more in the store. Promise!

I can't believe it: There are the "dusty" historical pictures after all. A cool collection for any music room, a decoration for your office or the waiting area in your doctor's office.

Of course, we offer you noble pictures on canvas from the well-known Bach paintings, wood engravings, steel engravings and lithographs, so that you can decorate your music room, waiting room, office or doctor's office with them. And you can also create whole galleries from a series of similar motifs. Only the originals, that is the original paintings by Haußmann, Ihle and Rentsch ... they are available ... as a copy, of course ... not at Bach 4 You.

What is even more exciting, however, are the many, many suggestions beyond the usual "old-honored" historical pictures: There are also "new, current" artworks, collages and motifs related to Bach's life. Just click into the store now and browse a bit. You can already explore some examples below, and maybe you will have a desire for more.

Compose – alternatively – pictures on canvas of the Bach cities and the Bach places: photographed by my husband in the best weather and all in one continuous style. Of course, this also works with hugely enlarged historical postcards, for example. Or you decorate the hallway with large pictures of historical Bach monuments. There are – actually – no limits to your creativity.

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The Noble Bach Gift: Johann Sebastian as a Flat Tin Figure, Painted and Unpainted. And Johann Sebastian Bach 3D, Painted and Unpainted ... Plus Clearly ... The "Bach Combo" of Both

Indeed, as a painted figure he already impresses, Johann Sebastian. But if you see how the raw – the collector also says blank – tin figure looked before, that is, before painting, then both together are a particularly exciting combination and also an eye-catcher. For every place at home, in the office, in your doctor's office or in your law firm. Learn more about the Bach tin figures in the shop.

Once around Bach. This is what a fully sculptured figure looks like. Still blank. Great from all sides! In contrast to the fully plastic figures the flat tin figures are actually much better known.

That's right, this is a flat tin figure, a whole eight centimeters ( 3.15 inches) high. That's why the Euro is also included as a scale. And because many people in the world don't usually know how big a Euro is, there's also a US quarter dollar. In the offer both coins are not included and also not the fruit bowl. And the kitchen in the background would also be an extra and not yet included in the price.

If you are reading here right now, then I am glad, because you have already taken a lot of time to read and look at the many pictures and offers. And if you have a little more time now, please stay. The tin figure above is not only flat, but it is something very special. Because it was especially designed, drawn, engraved, poured and at the end also painted for my publishing house. So what? You might be asking yourself that now. And rightly so. Tin figurine collectors are a tiny, tight-knit community of creative people. Especially, actually very especially, if they also paint tin figures themselves, that is not just collect them. Such a tin figure collector was my husband's father – yes, right, now Peter Bach Sr. – he painted himself and if an ensemble was of very special importance to him, then he also "let" paint. There is no need to emphasize how exactly such an artist has to act on the tiny figure. The simplest figures are painted with one color ... of course, for each section a different one. But there are still no "shadows and lights" to be seen. Shadows and lights? Yes, such painting makes the figure really plastic.

This is already very special for flat tin figures and often only the experts know it: Flat tin figures are always placed parallel to the horizon in front of the viewer. Now, if a composer, brewer or fireman is to be seen from the side, then he must be engraved like this beforehand and then also poured. All flat tin figures are later also parallel to each other. So he collected – my father-in-law – and painted and had dioramas built. Dioramas are small open boxes – or even slightly larger – in which later a scene – a story – is depicted. Peter Bach Sr. was a specialist in the history of beer brewing and the history of firefighting through the centuries. With about 200 dioramas – scenes like a part of a model railroad – he exhibits these two topics in museums, breweries and town halls.

And why am I telling you this? Well, when you grow up in such an environment, that is, from age five to today - so to speak - then if you are so fond of Johann Sebastian Bach, you would also like to "issue" your own tin figure of Bach ...  yes indeed, tin figures are "issued". So my husband grabbed the steel engraving of the Bach Monument in Eisenach, had a preparatory drawing made of it for engraving, then had the work produced in a first blank, and finally, when Bach in tin was finally perfect, had a first one painted as well.  We counted it through: There were a total of ten artists involved until today you can buy this Bach in tin as one of the Bach gifts. 

It is interesting to note that the little angel holding the book for Bach to read causes quite as much work as the actual relatively large Bach. What a play on words. Have you noticed him at all ... the little gray pipsqueak?

Bach Gifts for Stamp Collectors?

They must be large and exciting, those stamps that you find now and then at "Bach 4 You". On the subject of Bach or also on the subject of composers. They are intended as wall decorations, in a great frame with a large passe-partout. And if you want, then also in a small gallery with several frames and several stamps. And which ones exactly does the publisher offer? You'll find out when you visit the store.

If you collect all the stamps that have ever existed on the subject of Bach and still exist today – and then also a few, but not all Cinderellas – then you have many, many sources in the end and also manage now and then to "get hold" of the most beautiful and largest Bach stamps simply a second time. And that's what we do then.

In no way is this "section" helpful if you yourself collect all stamps on the subject of Bach or collect the subject of music on stamps in general, because for this the offer in the shop is not only too small, but much too small. By the way, here you can get to the corresponding page with all stamps in the world about Johann Sebastian Bach on "Bach on Bach". But, to see if I have a particular Bach stamp for you to buy right now, please click on the link under the picture, above.

Bach Antiques ... And Many Bach Almost Antiques: More and More Bach Gifts

Antiques in the shop – if they are printed works, lithographs or even paintings, postcards or music books – are always an original, unlike the pictures on canvas. They are between 40 and 150 years old and with much, much effort and perseverance "hunted" by us, to be later ... scanned or photographed ... to illustrate one of the Bach websites. Of course, there are always different "treasures" and if you wanted to furnish a wall full of "jewels", then you would have to regularly visit the shop with the antiques ... but who wants that?!

Some small antiques are not prints or postcards in the above sense. Sure you can get them into a frame somehow, but you don't do that with them. They are tiny books with a complete biography about Bach. And because these little books – there are two different ones, a small one and an even smaller one – are from 1985, they are, according to Wikipedia, not yet antiques, precisely because they are not yet 50 years old. But hand on heart: Does it matter? The possibility for us to find such a tiny book in fine leather is rare, but this even smaller one with the medal: That is practically nowhere to be tracked down.

You know it: If you like the idea with the Euro and the Quarter, both are added to the purchase price. You can see the even smaller book about Bach in the shop. Of course, I'm not serious about the coins. And nevertheless, you don't get the coins.

The Bach Tributes and Quotes Medley ... What Kind of Bach Gift Is That?!

If you have already collected all the quotes that have ever been said about the composer Johann Sebastian Bach – after dealing with sound engineers, recording studios and professional speakers for over 30 years – and if you have already "invented" a small biography with music about Bach ... then it stands to reason that you make something even more special out of these quotes and Bach's music and this mini biography.  And this is now available ... and it is best suited for listening in your car. By the way, it's even more fun in a traffic jam.

The curious thing is that you can listen to it in two ways. Once there is an audio sample in the shop, there you simply listen to a whole sequence. But then you can also get to know the individual parts: That is, you read the quotes – with a click here – listen to Johann Sebastian Bach's wonderful music – with a click here – and you watch one of eight short biographies which my husband Peter and I created as a video ... with a click here. However, I dare to doubt whether listening to the Bach medley will be a real pleasure afterwards!  By the way, this little work of art is also a very special gift instead of a bottle of wine or a bunch of flowers when visiting your friends next time. Have fun listening.

Many, Many Bach Gifts and Composers Gifts ... Now Many at a Glance!

So? Are you now in the mood to click to the shop ... in the "matter of Bach"? You maybe can't actually even wait to visit the shop?

What Would Gifts Related to the Subject of Johann Sebastian Bach Be Without His Immortal Music?

Six Free Add-Ons Is What Comes With Your Bach Music Purchase

Bach's cool music, and that is to say for a low price, plus six free add-ons. Where else on the planet do you get such an offer?

It's great to argue about the quality of music. Really extensively. Not only does one person think Mozart is better than Beethoven and Wagner better than Bach. But also that Glenn Gould now plays Bach better than Pablo Casals, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra or the Fürstenfeld Bach Orchestra in Germany. There are certainly hundreds of CDs with thousands of combinations of Bach's works. The cantatas, his passions, the Brandenburg Concerts. Never, never, never could we make a selection and then prefer one over the other or even form an opinion as to which is "better" or "played better".

Even more: There are connoisseurs for whom our music could be performed better on the homepage, they are no longer interested in getting to know these melodies, but their demands are much higher. And then there are actually also many connoisseurs who could rather advise us than we them. They certainly know better where to get top music by Bach.

But there also remains a "rest of people" and they also fit perfectly with our offer, that is to spread the knowledge about Bach's music and life in general. And therefore, in harmony with this philosophy – and also with our mission – we have two exciting offers for you.   ––

First, there's our offering of Bach's 33 most popular and well-known works as a collection. And they sound exactly like the music on the website "Bach on Bach". One to one. No note is different ... and also no instrument. Listen to a few pieces of it for 15 seconds each and you will know if you like this style too.

And then there is also our "Super Dooper Bach Music Offer". You have already discovered it above. There is the possibility to buy all music works "in one go".  For an incredibly affordable price. These are a wide variety of orchestras, and unless you have a hyper-modern record player at home because it simply transmits music even more authentically than digital media, you really can't go far wrong with this music offering.  Out of many offerings on the market, this edition is especially a current collection as well. Plus, no other Bach Music Edition comes with six free music add-ons.

The Funniest Bach Gifts, the Coolest Bach Gifts and Also the Strangest Bach Gifts, Too

Your favorite Bach picture on your favorite mug? That works. Your favorite Bach picture on a cool watch? That works, too. Your favorite Bach picture on a tie? Of course, you can get it here with us. Click here to visit the shops.

I have a small very special request here: Please only click from the publisher's store (Bach 4 You) to Zazzle and the other stores, because that's the only way Zazzle (... and the others) will notice that your order through our shop "works". Even more: Even if you visit Zazzle again later for another reason: If you do it through the "Bach 4 You" store, then – quite naturally it is no secret – then that creates for our project and our mission a small so-called advertising cost reimbursement, in new English"". We are allowed to set the amount of commission for these items at Zazzle, and that's why they fit our mission and your wallet. Namely, because we calculate very carefully in the process.

What is Zazzle anyway? Zazzle is an internet portal that offers tens of thousands of gifts that you can customize. Zazzle offers a baseball cap, we supply the decor, and you get this sports hat in a Bach design of your choice. Or Zazzle offers a variety of t-shirts. Actually ... there are super-many t-shirts. You get excited about a special Bach motif, or a cool quote on the shirt – also from Bach – and you have both components combined. Your desired T-shirt and your desired Bach motif ... ready.

Just click there. This is "looking for gifts" the other way around: You don't even have to know what gift you want ... just try it out and let yourself be inspired.

Soon 1,000+ Bach gifts, which of course are music gifts at the same time: That is what you will find in these five online shops of "Bach 4 You". With a click on the buttons above you get there in no time. Or ...with a click here.

Music Gifts, Bach Gifts ... This Is a Great Place, if You Are a Bach Fan, or a Music Fan or a Classical Music Lover 

An exception on this page is okay, because this calendar has so absolutely nothing at all to do with Bach. Because the Publishing House has its headquarters in a wine community ... and the publisher and the calendar author also live there, it made sense to compile a wine calendar with the many existing photo material. And from one finally became a whole twelve. Each can also be personalized and one is a very special one especially for winegrowers and vinotheque operators. Well, just click over to the store and find out.

Two music gifts: On the left it's a composers calendar, which is also a music calendar, on the right it's a composer T-shirt, which is also a music T-shirt.

Gifts for musicians or music gifts? In the pictures above you see the smallest Bach biography of all time and on the right there is the 2024 Pipe Organ Calendar. The Bach biography is certainly, though not yet formally, an antique. The pipe organ calendar is what you can even purchase next year, then with the latest calendar, and the year after next year. You get to all shops here.

Renate Bach Publishing "Bach 4 You" – Bildstrasse 25, 74223 Flein / Germany – Phone: +49 7131 576761 – info (at) bach4you.de

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