Baby Fozzie "wearing" a Bach bust (middle) on Muppet Babies.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist during the Baroque period.
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- Rowlf the Dog plays Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on The Muppet Show in the UK spot for episode 514.
- A season one film insert on Sesame Street uses his composition "Gavotte," as performed by the Swingle Singers, during a film about cleaning. (First: Episode 0001)
- A Sesame Street film about rain (First: Episode 0149) uses the Largo movement from Bach's "Concerto for Harpsichord in f minor, BWV 1056."
- The opening section of "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" is used over exterior shots of Count von Count's castle in a season 30 sketch. That composition was also used in the Countdown to Halloween stage show, and The Count plays a brief portion of the composition on his pipe organ in Trick or Treat with Sesame Street.
- When Zoe learns about the Lamberena with Lorena and Lorna Feijóo, the first piece of music played when the twin sisters start to dance is Bach's Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006, Preludio. (First: Episode 4186)
- Yo-Yo Ma appears by himself in the yard and plays the first Menuett from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007. (First: Episode 2210)
- In the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Music to My Ears", Bear listens to the "Air" movement of Bach's "Orchestral Suite No. 3" on the radio.
- A snippet of the "Toccata and Fugue" is heard during "Life Hereafter" in Muppets Haunted Mansion.
- In Elmo's World: Water, when Dorothy imagines Elmo as a scuba diver, Bach's "Musette in D Major" plays.
References[]
- In the Muppet Babies episode "Close Encounters of the Frog Kind" during the song "Practice Makes Perfect," Baby Piggy sings about "Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach," with Baby Scooter, Baby Gonzo, and Baby Fozzie popping up, "wearing" the composers' busts as their heads.
- The theme song for the Sesame Street segment "Alphabet Chat" features the alphabet sung to Bach's Fugue No. 2 in c minor, BWV 847 from The Well-Tempered Klavier.
- In a Pretty Great Performances segment, James Galway and the All-Animal Music Chamber Ensemble perform a tune by Johann Sebastian Fox, a spoof of Bach.
- "Minuet in G major" is often misattributed as a Bach composition, but has since been named one by German composer Christian Petzold. Despite this, the piece has been referred to as a Bach composition by Prairie Dawn in a sketch where she and Elmo play a duet of the piece (First: Episode 2988). Gordon also acknowledges Bach as composer when he performs the tune on the flute in Episode 3803.
- In a Sesame Street celebrity skit with Itzhak Perlman at Grouch Symphony Hall, his name is parodied as "Johann Sebastian Blech." (First: Episode 1658)
- In Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece, the game "Pop Goes the Honker" is set in a classroom. On the wall are Muppet caricature portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Bach.