Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” That is wisdom given by , one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive today. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in b-Minor, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor (“The Great”), St. Mathew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. There were over fifty-three musicians in his family over a period of 300 years.
was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was ...
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Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians, for example, the church choir, rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he became involved in some hot disputes during his short stay. In 1707, at the age of twenty-two, Bach was tired of the low musical standards of Arnstadt and moved on to another organist job, this time at the St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach.
Bach was again caught up in a conflict in the church. He then left and went to Muhlhausen and then to Weimer a year later. In Weimer, he held the post of organist and ...
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