Vintage Alexander Studio bust of Johann Sebastian Bach -

Dimensions are ; 19 1/4" high in total - Bust alone - 7 7/16" high , 5 5/8" wide , 5 1/4" deep - with a base measurement of 6 1/2 X 6 1/2" X 8 3/8" high . Material is gilt toned heavy plaster with a black and gilt tone steel pedestal base . Studio producer or the bust is Alexander studio . The great composer , Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 - 1750 ) , regarded as one of the greatest classical composer ever to have lived wrote and composed music during the first of the 4 periods of what we term classical music , the Baroque period . He was a church organist and there is an immense statue of him outside the Thomas Kirche ( St Thomas Church ) in Leipzig Germany . He lords over the entrance in bronze with a scroll in his hand . It is grand as were his prolific works. So many magnificent pieces for a variety of instruments that everyone has heard through so many mediums - the Toccata and Fugue in D minor , the Sinfonia from Cantata 29 , the Fugue in G minor , Wachet Auf ( Sleepers Awake ) , the Gigue Fugue , the Air on the G String , and his collections of works played ever since by conservatory students and Concert pianists and organists . His work has been transcribed for Orchestra and indeed every instrument under the sun. His great love was , well everything , but the Pipe Organ - the 'King of Instruments' is what he is particularly known for composing for. Learn a piece by J.S. Bach on the organ and his virtuosity will either exhilarate you or defeat you - or both. As Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said of Bach - "He is the father and we are the children." Oh so very true . This particular sculpture finds a bust by Alexander Studio paired by someone at some point with a wedge shaped ( perhaps a coy reference to the 'Wedge Fugue' by Bach ) base or stand elaborately decorated with a Lyre shaped Roman design on all 4 sloping sides. It lifts Bach up and exalts him , as if he required any more exaltation , but it perfectly fits the man and his glorious music. At the top of his hand written compositions he always penned - 'To the Glory of God , alone' , however we are the lucky ones to have had his music for the last 300 or so years. This piece fits Johann Sebastian Bach perfectly , it is spectacular and there is most certainly not another like it.