Craig Wright of Yale University covers Johann Sebastian Bach's life and music as part of his Listening to Music course. He opens with a biography illustrated by slides of the towns and buildings where Bach lived and worked, then turns to the traits of Baroque style as they show up in Bach's writing. The core of the lecture is a close analysis of the Advent cantata built on the chorale Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, tracing how Bach sets the tune across different movements and voices. Wright closes with Bach's posthumous reputation and his place in the broader arc of musical history. The lecture runs just under fifty minutes and is organized into four chapters moving from biography to style to a single extended case study to legacy.