History ReferencedBy / JohannSebastianBach

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]": Lestat de Lioncourt [[WrongfullyAttributed mistakenly ascribes]] Johann Sebastian Bach ("...the man had 20 children in his lifetime") as the composer of the "Minuet in G Minor" piano piece that he's performing onstage at the Azalea; it was in fact written by Christian Petzold.
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]": During the Christmas season of 1939, the biracial Claudia dislikes it when Lestat plays Bach's music at their piano because Bach is a German composer (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had instigated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII three months prior). The racially insensitive Lestat assumes that Claudia's aversion to Bach's repertoire means that she's not "sophisticated" enough to appreciate it.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'' trilogy, Tempest's surfer friend Bach got his nickname because he rides the waves as beautifully as Johann Sebastian composed music.

** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]", Lestat de Lioncourt [[WrongfullyAttributed mistakenly ascribes]] Johann Sebastian Bach ("...the man had 20 children in his lifetime") as the composer of the "Minuet in G Minor" piano piece that he's performing onstage at the Azalea; it was in fact written by Christian Petzold.
** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", during the Christmas season of 1939, the biracial Claudia dislikes it when Lestat plays Bach's music at their piano because Bach is a German composer (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had instigated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII three months prior). The racially insensitive Lestat assumes that Claudia's aversion to Bach's repertoire means that she's not "sophisticated" enough to appreciate it.

** In "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil", Lestat de Lioncourt [[WrongfullyAttributed mistakenly ascribes]] Johann Sebastian Bach ("...the man had 20 children in his lifetime") as the composer of the "Minuet in G Minor" piano piece that he's performing onstage at the Azalea; it was in fact written by Christian Petzold.
** In "The Thing Lay Still", during the Christmas season of 1939, the biracial Claudia dislikes it when Lestat plays Bach's music at their piano because Bach is a German composer (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had instigated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII three months prior). The racially insensitive Lestat assumes that Claudia's aversion to Bach's repertoire means that she's not "sophisticated" enough to appreciate it.

** In "The Thing Lay Still", during the Christmas season of 1939, the biracial Claudia dislikes it when Lestat plays Bach's music at their piano because Bach is a German composer (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had initiated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII three months prior). The racially insensitive Lestat assumes that Claudia's aversion to Bach's repertoire means that she's not "sophisticated" enough to appreciate it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' starts off with Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which, true to the music's fashion, is a series of abstract images.
** ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois... L' Homme'' started off with Toccata and Fugue in D minor as its theme music.
** The basis for the ''VideoGame/{{Gyruss}}'' theme song.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OFZ9Mh7GA Bach onto This]]" could even count as a {{Homage}}.
** A Franchise/TouhouProject [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfvo-xyq_zQ music arrange]] for Kanako Yasaka's theme, Suwa Foughten Field, begins with the opening.
** "Golbez, Clad in Darkness" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' quotes it as well.
** Eurobeat Brony's "Discord" uses the Fugue for its intro.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' series have J.S. Bach's Cathedral as a Wonder you can build. In ''Civ. II'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621tO6N1nQA the cutscene that plays upon finishing its construction]] features Toccata and Fugue in D minor as background music.

* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'' features both "Air" and a LonelyPianoPiece version of "Jesu, The Joy Of Man's Desiring" in its soundtrack. "Air" is even one of the titles for the first half of the film.
* The long fade-out of The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" includes a snippet of Two-Part Invention No.8.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/DevilSummoner'' plays an organ version of Two Part Invention No.13 as background music in the Hotel Goumaden. Its sequel, ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'', features a piano version in the same location, but only after you perform a fusion or let the first piece of music finish.
* Creator/ArthurCClarke wrote of Bach's music assuaging solitude in two of his best-known novels.
** As Jan is waiting for his existence to end in ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', he spends the time playing Bach on his electronic piano.
** On the space journey to Saturn in ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001]]'', Dave Bowman gradually discards all other music and only finds peace listening to the "abstract architecture" of Bach.
* ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' has a plot point where, thanks to a twist on YouWillBeBeethoven, J. S. Bach [[spoiler:never actually existed; Prof. Chronitis stole some unearthly beautiful alien music and planted it in the Baroque era using Bach as a pseudonym]]. In real life Bach was also Creator/DouglasAdams' favorite composer; he was especially fond of "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" (BWV 6) which he listened to while writing, considering it an "absolutely perfect" piece of music.

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** In "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil", Lestat de Lioncourt [[WrongfullyAttributed mistakenly ascribes]] Johann Sebastian Bach ("...the man had 20 children in his lifetime") as the composer of the "Minuet in G Minor" piano piece that he's playing onstage at the Azalea; it was in fact written by Christian Petzold.

* In the ''Series/Adam12'' episode "A Sound Like Thunder," a secretly-cultured member of a criminal biker gang paints "Bach" on his motorcycle. His friends can't pronounce it, resulting in his nickname, Batch.

* In the ''Series/AdamTwelve'' episode "A Sound Like Thunder," a secretly-cultured member of a criminal biker gang paints "Bach" on his motorcycle. His friends can't pronounce it, resulting in his nickname, Batch.

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* In ''Literature/EyeOfAFly'', Ernest plays Bach in his head as he walks. Later, he finds a record of Eugene Ormandy's orchestral transcriptions of Bach organ music at the library.

* In ''Literature/EyeOfAFly'', Ernest plays Bach in his head as he walks.

* Petra from ''Literature/IThinkILoveYou'' practices Bach suites on her cello.