Bach Gifts, Many Bach Gifts

Do you Want to Buy a Bach Gifts Now or Do You First Want to Explore the Whole "Adventure Park" Around J.S. Bach Gifts?

Do you have a little time now? And would you like to browse a little? Then you actually have come exactly to the right place. Because here it may also be a little more text. To get quickly to my gigantic selection of gifts however, is to do a small shortcut, which is possible via the link in the paragraph above

Bach Gifts and More Bach Gifts and My Publishing House and the Shop "Bach 4 You"

"Bach 4 You" is, more precisely, the Renate Bach Publishing House in Flein close to the city of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and that's me: Renate Bach. Together with my husband – Peter Bach, Jr. –  I have been enthusiastic about Johann Sebastian Bach since around 2010. My husband loves to write (... and he loves to write a lot) and I like to do research: I particularly enjoy exploring the roots of the Bach Family of Musicians. And what is the purpose of "Bach 4 You"? With his publishing offer ... namely music gifts and more music gifts? Because research and the time-consuming "tinkering" of websites costs a lot of time and money. With "Bach 4 You" and your decision to buy gifts from my Bach shop, you are helping us. And for the expansion of Bach's work and Bach's life, these gifts are also excellent: The more good books about Bach, for example, "end up in the hands of children," the more likely it is that information about the composer will be passed on. And music calendars can perhaps do this even better, because for a whole year, everyone who passes by such a calendar becomes aware of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Because you do need a little time and leisure here: Here you get an overview of what there is to tell about the individual offer sections. And not in an "oopsie-daisy" way, but designed to entertain you a little. And to introduce individual segments at your leisure. Once again, however, here's the suggestion of how you can "get your act together" if you're actually looking for a suitable gift and aren't in the mood to work your way through the texts on this page beforehand. Of course, you can get to the store again here. Via this link.

This Particular Gift Is Close to Our Hearts: The First Book, Our Bach Biography for Children 

You can't imagine at all that this biography, our No. 1 gift for children, was born out of a certain frustration on my husband's part. Yes indeed, he was frustrated on the subject of Bach. He didn't like what he found as reading. The Bach genealogy – that is, the genealogical research on this musical family did not bring him forward because of the many "Johann Christophs" – and his first encounter with Bach's music: You would have to hear him on this. Bach fans please skip the next sentence and read on with the beginning of the following chapter. Exactly 50 percent of Bach's music not only did not please him ... he did not like them at all. I do not want to reproduce the wording here. And why was that so? Well, quite simply: His taste and the taste of the person who had chosen Bach's musical works for a CD that he bought were probably completely different.

For this he wanted to change something. "Accompany better to Bach" was his motto and so, a few years ago, our joint "Johann Sebastian Bach Mission" began. He is – so to speak – the project "Bach about Bach" ... I am – so to speak – the Renate Bach Publishing House "Bach 4 You". And this is how it all took its course: He presents the music in order of popularity, not according to his personal taste. He looks for hurdles that spoil the fun, just as, for example, the Milan Bach is at the same time the London Bach and the Berlin Bach is at the same time the Hamburg Bach. And so, with time, he developed more and more approaches in which "a guided journey to Bach's life and work" is the essence. As mentioned, he is the project "Bach about Bach".  I am the publisher "Bach 4 You" ... and together it is our common "Johann Sebastian Bach Mission". 

And that brings us back to my first gift suggestion, the Biography about Bach for Children. One philosophy has prevailed with my husband: He thinks the most important thing in a first contact with classical music is not to break too much. That's his goal now. And the book, the Bach Biography for Children, is another result of this philosophy. Next to the website "Bach on Bach". If you haven't been there yet, you should plan it for later or in the next days: "Bach on Bach", here you can easily get there, with one click.

These chapters make you want more. Promised. Desire for more for kids and adults, too. These pages are here just so you can get an idea. Sample chapters with text in reasonable size are below.

In the biography for children there are really exciting stories from Bach's life. The challenge for the author, my husband, was to work them out without distorting them.

To tell Bach's life in such a way that at the end of each chapter you don't know what will happen to the composer or what the two friends Veit and Balthazar will do next. To repeat important things inconspicuously and to simply delete unimportant things ... so that kids would rather remember little than everything at all. That's how my husband wanted to write it. To the shop? You can click here.

"Pure Knowledge": A Bilingual Biography of Less Than 500 Words. Hidden in a Bach Coloring Book!

Shortly after the Bach Biography for Children, this Bach coloring book – as a second music gift offer from my publisher – was created. Again it is a pure, pure family production ... again ... so to speak.  But finally we accomplished that. My husband had this idea in his head to depict the stages in Bach's life and sketched the templates from it. Briana Bach-Hertzog in the USA – who is even more closely related to the Thomas Cantor than my husband – then transformed these into 23 wonderful drawings. Finally, I was allowed to do "all the rest" again: Layout, title, print offers, print order and ... just everything a real publisher does ... I had to make sure that among the many gifts you would find exactly this music gift. For example with this website.

Here and further down you can explore three of the double pages of the Bach Coloring Book: On the right always the drawing to color, of course then without the colorful copy protection, on the left below the coloring template and above ... the mini biography in German and also in English. Perhaps even your the first words that your daughter or son see in their lives in a foreign language. Even before they can read.

Again, first of all, exciting is important. Why did the eldest brother of Johann Sebastian Bach take away the music booklet that Johann Sebastian Bach copied for himself and never gave it back to him ... for the rest of his life? Because he was worried that the youngest brother would overburden himself. Johann Sebastian lived with this brother in Ohrdruf, after first Bach's mother and a short time later his father had died.

Many people don't know that either: Bach spent four weeks in prison. Why, you already know that (... but only if you have read in the mini-biography above). By the way, you can see all pages on the website for the coloring book. Also, the Bach Coloring Book is very proud of its own website.

The Biography About Bach for Children Is Available on Paper as an Ebook, for Tablets and Smartphones as Well as an Audio Book, Even in Three Versions. Sure ... Plus on Paper

Of course, in what time are we living?! Of course, the Bach biography for children is also available electronically. To read and to listen to. With all photos and illustrations as a PDF file for tablets and smartphones as well as an audiobook with lots of music by Bach, with less music by Bach and with no music by Bach at all. Just as you like it. In the eBook, of course, the illustrations are missing. And that's right, there's no music either. Would you like to listen in? To the audiobook?  It's really worth it. The sound of the professional narrator, the introductory music ... I claim that you won't want to stop. Enjoy your listening experience..

The audiobook version that works entirely without music. Pure pleasure. In your car, in a traffic jam, before you fall asleep. However, you should definitely also try the version with Bach's music.

The audiobook variant 2, with 19 great musical works, but none longer than three minutes: One musical work introduces the book, 17 works separate the chapters ... and one musical work by Bach closes the story.

Our very personal favorite variant with a lot of music. It is only the most famous and the most popular musical works by Bach. There are a whole 66 recordings between the chapters, under the text and also during the chapters as a creative interruption. But there are only 30 works: Only the most popular and well-known musical works are repeated twice or three times in eight hours. Perfect for getting to know Bach. No piece is longer than three minutes. Just the right amount of music to accompany the exciting life of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Bach Kindergarten Game ... A Great Idea Is Looking for Excited Backers

More interested in this exciting idea? The Bach Kindergarten Game is also really proud of "their very own website. Click on the link above and you are there. You can buy it right away in the store, you know where to click for it.

Pictures on Canvas: A Noble Gifts or ... You Give Yourself a Pleasure

Many Bach Portraits and Many Composer Portraits in Many, Many Different Styles

Welcome to "The Land of the Many Cool Johann Sebastian Bach Gifts"

Not only nine original and inexpensive calendars on the topic of Johann Sebastian Bach, composers and music can be found at "Bach 4 You", but you also get many calendars hot off the press. 90 music calendars are printed especially for you. Nine of 99 music calendars, on the other hand, is what the publisher calls his favorable offers. Of these nine calendars, "Bach 4 You" orders a comparatively small print run. But that's exactly what makes the difference: You can get these inexpensive calendars – six composer calendars, one Bach calendar and two music calendars – a whole lot cheaper. In a really cool style of composer calendars, you can even choose your own masters. And that's from a whopping 1.2 billion options. Pi times thumb. Namely, that's what you get when you choose from 36 composers yourself and then combine them. If that's not exciting, what is?

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The whole pride of my publishing house: the first Bach Calendar. 24 motifs are photographed by my husband in the very best weather. They are Bach monuments from Arnstadt to Leipzig and from Eisenach to Paris. And the very best? Are in this calendar, which is published every year. This calendar is in A4 (... check the three sizes in inches here) and in A3 and also in A2 one of the nine " inexpensive music calendars " in the store.

Johann Sebastian Bach ... The Tin Figures Among the Gifts from Metal

The tin figure of Johann Sebastian Bach. This one in the picture above is a so-called fully plastic figure, or a 3D figure, and it is – as you can obviously see – raw or blank, as the expert says. Unpainted. Fully plastic tin figures exist in a ratio to flat tin figures – the much better known variety – estimated at only 1 to 1,000.

And this is what it looks like when we have the fully plastic tin figure painted by an artist especially for you. Please observe the so-called lights and shadows on the clothing: This is not the one yellow and the one brown color, but there are dozens of shades, just like on a real oil painting too. Another exciting "serving suggestion" – if you can call it that – is if you place both tin figures, as in the picture, next to each other, or diagonally offset behind each other. Both then "tell a whole exciting story".

You wouldn't believe this: The little gray angel to the right of the master from Eisenach is just as much work as the "whole Bach". Would you have discovered him at all without this hint? Not on the blank, unpainted figure, probably.

Flat, this is how you rather know tin figures, and please note: They are tin figures, not tin soldiers or even worse, lead soldiers. Do you recognize the motif? It is the second most famous Bach Monument, which stands next to the Bach House and the Bach Museum as the third component of the trilogy in Eisenach. What's special about this figure is that it was thought up, designed, drawn, engraved, cast and finally painted especially for our "Bach Mission." Again, both are exciting, the painted figure and also the blank figure. However, a particularly exciting gift is again a combination of both: That is a real "eye-catcher". By the way: Both coins, the fruit bowl and also the kitchen in the background are not included in the price in the shop, but only deco.

Here, You Don't Get Gifts for Stamps Collectors ... Promise ... Really Not!

And yet. What is available in the shop at "Bach 4 You" in the "stamp department" is a dream gift. Indeed, these Bach stamps are perfect to display. Because all offered stamps and stamp blocks are what we already search in a minimum size: Together with a cool mat, in Germany it is Passepartout (... which is actually French) and a great frame, they are a perfect wall decoration: at home, in your office or in the waiting room.

Nevertheless: No, for stamp collectors "Bach 4 You" is certainly not the right place to go. Not even if you collect Bach stamps. Although: Information, that can be found optimally on my husband's website.  But collectors can't avoid doing their own research worldwide for their future treasures. Because stamps on the subject of Bach – and thus also stamps on the subject of "composers" – are relatively rare at "Bach 4 You". This is because only relatively large motifs and blocks that are subsequently ideally suited as wall decorations come into question as gift suggestions. We only propose motifs that we could find on the occasion of our hunt for newly issued stamps. But then the requirements are very specific. Because they must be – as mentioned – already large, at least the size of a baby hand. And they must be beautiful and of course they must not cost a fortune. Only then do we buy them and also offer them to you. And there is always only the single piece that we can deliver to you. First come, first served ... this then applies not only to us, but also to the one who then embeds the stamp sheet in a really big partout first and finally in an even bigger cool frame. Can you find the stamps in the store alone? Certainly.

A dream in black, white and gray shades from the year 2012, emitted by the Republic of Ivory Coast.

Historic Steel Engravings, Wood Engravings, Erasures ... All Related to the Subject of Bach and in the Highest Quality

The Bach House where Bach wasn't born. You know it: passe-partout around the postcard, frame around the passe-partout and tadaaaaa ... your wall decoration is finally a perfect gift for musicians and music fans. A real historical rarity.

A Rarity on the Theme of Bach: the Smallest and the Very  Smallest Historical Bach Biography

Make Yourself a Gift ... or Bring Your Friends Something Other Than Flowers: the Bach-Quotes and Tributes Medley

A Gift in 1,000 Parts: Bach Puzzles

Of course, you can get the dreamlike "Bach in Blue" by Briana Bach-Hertzog, a cousin of Bach (... though far away) as a puzzle. And you decide – after assembling – whether it should serve as a wall decoration from now on or whether you disassemble Bach again. Since 2022, this Bach is also available in gray.

The Bach Music Complete Edition Is the So-Called Bach Music Gesamtwerk: Where Else Do You Get Six Free Add-Ons*?

The Bach Complete Edition. You will find out perfectly whether you like Bach's cantatas better, or the passions, or the Brandenburg Concerts. But, what are there as add-ons?

No, it would not make sense to offer, in the publishing house, the most different recordings from the most different orchestras and from the most different recordings plus, in addition the most contrary compilations of Bach music works. That would certainly go beyond the scope, and we would have to buy and provide many, many CDs or the delivery times would be unbearably long.

And so also "Bach on Bach" ( ... my husband's website) limits its offer of music to 33 works: Namely to the best known and most popular melodies by Bach, which you could listen to right now already. On the one hand. The publishing offer of "Bach 4 You" on the other hand is limited to one Bach Complete Works, as of today. You can do practically nothing wrong with this super box with 142 CDs. Not at this unique price. Do you want to check out the price for a moment?

* You wanted to know more about the eight add-ons that you get with the Bach Complete Works of Music when you buy it? First of all, it is exciting but confusing: There is the so-called Bach Complete Edition. And this Bach Complete Edition (Gesamtwerk) is not the Bach Complete Works (Gesamt-Ausgabe). That is, because the Bach Complete Works (Gesamtwerk) is Bach's music to listen to. The Bach Complete Edition (Gesamtausgabe), on the other hand, also defines Bach's music, but on sheet music. The "Old Bach Complete Edition" (Gesamtausgabe), that is a lot, really a lot of sheet music, it dates from 1851 to 1899 and there are exactly 16,800 – and not something in Bach's handwriting, hardly anyone could read that – you can get them as PDF files. "Quite exactly around" 16,800 sheets of music, electronically prepared, a treasure.

And the add-ons number 1 to number 8? You'd best find out for yourself. Only so much already now : It is definitely the "Bach Biography for Children" in several electronic variants.  So not "either / or"! Then it's the Bach quotes medley, the historical necrology, both as audiobook, and finally it's the most sugary, tiny busts there are of Beethoven and Mozart. Actually, they are two erasers, but you can't tell by looking at them. And all this at an already top-fair price. Clicking on this link will take you to a more detailed description.

You don't have to choose from the precious six items above. Because you get them all eight.

Und Now There Are Gifts for Bach Fans, Which We Couldn't Excite Until Here

Right, now it might get borderline in parts ... However, it will not be less exciting. In fact, now we propose you more and hundreds of gifts on the topic of Johann Sebastian Bach.

What is "Zazzle"? "Zazzle" is an American company that implements gift ideas. There are around 300 million items there, which you can "upgrade" to super-cool gifts with your own creative ideas. However, "Zazzle" comes up with this number itself, and Wikipedia serves as our source. Anyway, even one percent of 300 million items, that would still be an incredible number of offers. So, an example: "Zazzle" suggests a watch, we contribute the portrait of Bach and so, for example, a "Bach watch" with the superstar's portrait is created. Or a small Bach keychain or the obligatory Bach T-shirt and also the Bach baseball cap. It continues with the Bach smartphone case and everything, almost everything, that you can imagine in your wildest dreams.

Almost no limit is set to the imagination, and we have looked around there, selected the perfect gifts for you and optimized them with our most beautiful motifs. The link below will take you "not quite directly" to the selection, and we would be happy – if you find fun in "Zazzle", even beyond Johann Sebastian Bach – if you navigate through our site, even later again, there. It's no secret: Of course we will get a small compensation for advertising costs – yes, that's what it's really called today – if you order something there ... and this will be neither more nor less expensive for you. But we can set our sights on the next goals in our Bach projects ... and these are smaller and bigger and also quite utopian unrealistic big ideas and all of them cost money. How to get there now? Click to the store ... and then, tadaaaaa, to our store at Zazzle.

Five stores, tens of thousands of music gifts ... this is where you will get there.

Composers Calendars ... We Stay With the Subject: Music Gifts and More Music Gifts

So, Which Is Actually the Most Exciting Composers Calendar in the Universe?

You can find it with one click here. Whether it is "your thing", your taste and whether it inspires you as much as we do, you can easily find out. But it stays that way: It is certainly the most unusual composer calendar on earth. And the publishing house "Bach 4 You" will – without a doubt – publish more composer calendars in this style than any other publishing house on the planet. With a wink ... but also seriously, now. At least ... that was the case until 2022 and the brochure calendars, which we both don't like at all, are not allowed to take part in this comparison anyway.

One of our favorites when it comes to composers calendars. And here it fits wonderfully, with its many blue tones on the right side. 33 composers calendars are available at the publishing house "Bach 4 You". In three sizes, in landscape format and in portrait format. Affordable and hot from the press. For young musicians and adult musicians, for young music fans and for adult music enthusiasts. You can also simply "get to the point": With "Bach 4 You" there are just ... composers calendars and more composers calendars.

A "modern" Bach beer stein of many and the 2024 Pipe Organ Calendar. Both are perfect and inexpensive gifts for musicians, for example instead of the usual bouquet of flowers or the usual bottle of wine. If... yes, if your friends are enthusiastic about classical music. Click here to get to the shop.

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