In musical notation in Germany, the letter ‘h’ is used to represent the note b natural. So, the name ‘Bach’ forms an elegant phrase of two pairs of falling semitones. Bach's musical ‘signature’ appears again and again through his output. Two shining examples are included here – the ‘unfinished fugue’ Contrapunctus XIV à 4 from Die Kunst der Fuge and the Ricercar à 6 from Musikalisches Opfer. (Chandos)
