“Five-Part Invention,” Andrea J. Buchanan’s beautifully perceptive novel, begins with a reckoning. The elderly Lise is penning a letter to her estranged daughter Anna. Nearing the end of her life, ...

On our piano’s rack there’s long been an ancient volume of J. S. Bach’s Three Part Inventions for Piano. I’ve never paid it any particular attention until today when, for some reason, I saw it afresh, ...

Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...