melodies day in and day out”(Jacobson 10). Glenn Gould said that very quote about Johann Sebastian Bach and his music. Johann Sebastian Bach left an amazing legacy as the best composer in the Baroque era‚ and he is one of the most important figures in classical music. Bach is and will always be one of the greatest composers of all time. Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21‚ 1685 in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany. Bach came from a very long line of Thuringian organist and composers(Matthews
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During his lifetime‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was famous as a virtuoso organist rather than as a composer. His works conveyed a sense of beauty and creativity that few can rival. Bach’s use of counterpoint was brilliant and innovative‚ and the immense complexities of his compositional style -- which often included religious and numerological symbols that seem to fit perfectly together in a profound puzzle of special codes -- still amaze musicians today. Many consider him the greatest composer of all
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idiom is Johann Sebastian Bach‚ whose impact on music was unforgettable to say the least. People today look back to his writings and works to both learn and admire. Bach‚ who came from a family of over 53 musicians‚ was nothing short of a virtuoso instrumentalist as well as a masterful composer. Born in Eisenach‚ Germany‚ on March 21‚ 1685‚ he was the son of a masterful violinist‚ Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ who taught his son the basic skills for string playing. Along with this string playing‚ Bach began
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Johann Sebastian Bach There have been many amazing composers of music. All composers come from different backgrounds. There are also many different composers from different eras of music and there has been a couple of different eras of music. There was Medieval‚ Renaissance‚ Baroque‚ Classical‚ Romantic‚ 20th century and other different eras. I will mainly be focusing on the Baroque era with which Johann Sebastian Bach was born in and composed during. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Germany in
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“Johann Sebastian Bach” Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in western musical history. More than 1‚000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the art of fugue‚ Brandenburg Concerti‚ the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord‚ the‚ Mass in B-minor‚ the motets‚ and the Easter and Christmas oratorios. Bach came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years. His father Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ was a talented
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composers that was very famous during this period was Johann Sebastian Bach. He was considered a magnificent baroque-era composer. Bach had a distinguished musical descend and took on various organist positions during the early 18th century. Bach won the post of organist at the court of the Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar. He wrote many church cantatas and some of his best compositions for the organ while working for the duke. During his time at Weimar‚ Bach wrote "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor‚" one of his
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The Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach Many people today look back to the writings and works of Johann Sebastian Bach‚ “Bach‚” to learn and admire the indelible marks and influence that he was to the world of music as a composer‚ organist‚ harpsichordist‚ violist‚ and violinist of the Baroque Period. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach‚ a town in Thuringia‚ Germany; he was raised and spent most of his life there. Because a scarcity of finances his career and himself were limited to where he could
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Johan Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany on March 31‚ 1685. Bach had prestigious musical lineage and took multiple organist positions during the eighteenth century‚ creating famous pieces such as “Toccata and Fugue in D minor‚” also‚ and “Mass in B Minor‚” The “Brandenburg Concertos and “The Well-Tempered Clavier” Bach came from a family of musician. Bach’s father worked as the town musician in Eisenach. Where he taught Bach how to play the violin. At age seven‚ Bach went to
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Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in history. “People felt his music and art helped protect people against the advance of doubt bred by the renaissance ideas of scientific‚ rational inquiry.”(The World Book Encyclopedia 2012. Chicago‚ IL: World Book‚ 2012. Print). He bought music techniques such as Counterpoint (playing of two or more melodies at one time) and Fugue(where different instruments repeat the same melody with slight variation) to their greatest heights. He wrote
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English Suite No. 2 Prelude in A minor BWV 807 J.S. Bach(1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach‚ Germany into a very musical family. He was a significant composer and organist. His life can be divided into the period of Weimar‚ Köthen and Leipzig. At his young age‚ he was given a religious education which had deeply affected the development of his composing career. In his lifetime‚ he composed many organ‚ keyboard‚ chamber and vocal works using religious theme‚ German
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