Born on March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig), composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of north German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is celebrated as the creator of the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B Minor, and numerous other masterpieces of church and instrumental music. Appearing at a propitious moment in the history of music, Bach was able to survey and bring together the principal styles, forms, and national traditions that had developed during preceding generations and, by virtue of his synthesis, enrich them all.
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Johann Sebastian Bach QUICK FACTS Bach View Media Page BORN March 21, 1685 Eisenach, Germany DIED July 28, 1750 (aged 65) Leipzig, Germany NOTABLE WORKS “St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244” “Brandenburg Concertos” sinfonia “Three-Part Inventions” “St. John Passion” “Mass in B Minor” “Jesu meine Freude” “Christmas Oratorio” “Hunt Cantata” “God Is My King” MOVEMENT / STYLE Baroque music NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS Son Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Son Johann Christian Bach Son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach RELATED FACTS AND DATA James Newton Howard - Facts DID YOU KNOW? Bach's parents both died when he was ten years old. The same doctor performed eye surgery on Bach and George Friedrich Handel, who both became blind after the procedure. Bach was attacked by one of his students with a club. He was a member of a remarkable family of musicians who were proud of their achievements, and about 1735 he drafted a genealogy, Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie (“Origin of the Musical Bach Family”), in which he traced his ancestry back to his great-great-grandfather Veit Bach, a Lutheran baker (or miller) who late in the 16th century was driven from Hungary to Wechmar in Thuringia, a historic region of Germany, by religious persecution and died in 1619. There were Bachs in the area before then, and it may be that, when Veit moved to Wechmar, he was returning to his birthplace. He used to take his cittern to the mill and play it while the mill was grinding. Johann Sebastian remarked, “A pretty noise they must have made together! However, he learnt to keep time, and this apparently was the beginning of music in our family.”
TOP QUESTIONS Why is Johann Sebastian Bach important? What did Johann Sebastian Bach compose? What was Johann Sebastian Bach’s childhood like? When did Johann Sebastian Bach get married? What were Johann Sebastian Bach’s children’s names? Until the birth of Johann Sebastian, his was the least distinguished branch of the family; some of its members, such as Johann Christoph and Johann Ludwig, had been competent practical musicians but not composers. In later days the most important musicians in the family were Johann Sebastian’s sons—Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian (the “English Bach”).
Life
Early years
J.S. Bach was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. Ambrosius was a string player, employed by the town council and the ducal court of Eisenach. Johann Sebastian started school in 1692 or 1693 and did well in spite of frequent absences. Of his musical education at this time, nothing definite is known; however, he may have picked up the rudiments of string playing from his father, and no doubt he attended the Georgenkirche, where Johann Christoph Bach was organist until 1703.
Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Subscribe today By 1695 both his parents were dead, and he was looked after by his eldest brother, also named Johann Christoph (1671–1721), organist at Ohrdruf. This Christoph had been a pupil of the influential keyboard composer Johann Pachelbel, and he apparently gave Johann Sebastian his first formal keyboard lessons. The young Bach again did well at school, and in 1700 his voice secured him a place in a select choir of poor boys at the school at Michaelskirche, Lüneburg.
His voice must have broken soon after this, but he remained at Lüneburg for a time, making himself generally useful. No doubt he studied in the school library, which had a large and up-to-date collection of church music; he probably heard Georg Böhm, organist of the Johanniskirche; and he visited Hamburg to hear the renowned organist and composer Johann Adam Reinken at the Katharinenkirche, contriving also to hear the
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