A health librarian and music: Johann Sebastian Bach

I discovered Bach's organ music as a student, listening on the radio to BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong (that was the sort of student life I led).  I knew the famous one but not the rest.   I liked the way the bass often plays the tune, but also that sometimes other parts of the register do.  I liked the patterns as the tune moved up and down the scale and the way that several patterns weave in and out of each other (all those are non-technical descriptions, of course!).  

That love of Bach's organ music has continued and while working at home in these locked down times, I sometimes listen to Bach on YouTube (1).  Often this is done with headphones as it seems this musical taste is not shared by other locked down family members.

So what is in PubMed about Bach?    bach js[ps] finds 32 articles about him ([ps] being "personal name as subject").   A search for johann sebastian bach translates into a search for all three words in all fields and finds 70.   If you try this search yourself, you will see that many of the results are not about Bach.  What, you might wonder, are they doing there?  Answer below (2).

Of the ones that are about Bach, there are articles about use of his music in music therapy, and (of course) articles about his illnesses.   He had two eye operations (ouch!), the second of which left him without sight, and it seems he died of a stroke.     

There is this in Circulation Research about his life, which also discusses his music (the author is a musical director at a church in Boston, MA): 
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315025

This one about statistical learning and music: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31856208/

And one English and one Dutch language paper by the same author about ophthalmological aspects of his life.  These cover similar ground but are not direct translations of each other.        

(1) YouTube channels

Here is what I have found:

Netherlands Bach Society (Nederlandse Bachvereniging) are engaged in a project called All of Bach, which aims to record everything by Bach.    As well as the music there are videos by the performers, talking about the music.  The society website brings performances and notes together - organ music,  English,  orgelwerken, Nederlands.  

Dutch organist Gert van Hoef has recordings on his channel, some of live concerts he is giving at home or elsewhere.  He doesn't just play Bach, but he often does.

Most recently I have discovered Jean-Baptiste Dupont, whose channel includes a complete recording of the beautiful and ethereal Leipzig Chorales.

(2) What those results are doing there

The first PubMed possibility is that these papers are authored by someone called Bach.   But this is not the case.   It took me some time to work out that the authors of the papers about birds eggs, bats and so on, work in a Johann Sebastian Bach Strasse.