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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1. A cantata is a result of the Reformation movement and its creation is accredited to the Lutheran Church. The cantata is the result of many composers and poets of the time elaborating and modifying the Lutheran chorales‚ congregational hymns that were specific to every Sunday service of the Lutheran church‚ by incorporating their own lines of poetry or ornamenting the melody in order to express and elaborate the message from the original hymn. A very well known adopter of the cantata was Johann
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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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Das Leben des Johann Sebastian Bachs Gliederung 1. Einleitung 2. Das Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach 2.1 Eisenach 2.2 Ohrdruf 2.3 Lüneburg 2.4 Weimar 2.5 Arnstadt 2.6 Mühlhausen 2.6 Weimar 2.7 Köthen 2.8 Leipzig 1. Einleitung Ist musikalisches Talent erbbar? Dieser Frage versuchte der Wissenschaftler Johann Gottfried Walter seiner Zeit auf den Grund zu kommen. Er untersuchte den Stammbaum der Familie Bach. Angefangen bei Veit Bach‚ der noch Bäcker in Ungern war‚ und unter dessen
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia‚ Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses‚ he was confined to a very limited geographical space‚ as was his career. This greatly affected his‚ in that his music was not as widley known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach‚ Germany as the youngest child of a church organist father‚ Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645-1695)‚ and a mother‚ Maria Elisabeth Lammerhirt (1644-1694) and into a great musical family‚ stretching back seven generations. Bach’s family was devoutly Lutheran. Bach learned violin and music theory from his father and organ from Johann Christoph Bach (1671-1721). In 1692‚ when Bach was seven years old‚ he attended Lateinschule in Eisenach and studied religion‚ Latin
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German Baroque composer. He was born on March 21‚ 1685‚ in Eisenach‚ Germany. He was a member of one of the most superior musical families of all time. For over 200 years‚ the Bach family had some of the most excellent composers and performers. His father‚ Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645-1695) lived in Eisenach since 1671 as string player‚ town piper and court trumpeter. In 1668‚ Bach’s father married Elisabeth Lämmerhirt (1644-1694) from Erfurt‚ who also grew up in a
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(1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach‚ a Baroque composer‚ is widely recognized for his contrapuntal music‚ characterized by many notes‚ simple rhythms‚ and steady shifts of underlying harmony. Bach is not only known for his vast compositions‚ which consist of hundreds of choral and instrumental works‚ but was also as an astoundingly gifted organ player and improviser. Compared to the other composers in his time‚ Bach explored much more harmony in his music. Bach’s music can contain extraordinarily ’jazzy’
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Cantata BWV 1 “Wie Schön Leuchtet der Morgenstern” Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach held various musical positions all over what is now Germany. From the year 1723 until his death in 1750 he served as cantor and director of music in Liepzig. His job here was very structured and kept him busy; being the head of music at four churches ‚ he had to compose a cantata for every Sunday and adhere to the ways of the church. It was here‚ and under these circumstances that Cantata BWV 1‚ “Wie
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One of the most prolific and world renowned composers of his time‚ during the Baroque era‚ was Johann Sebastian Bach. The German composer has composed over 1000 known works throughout his musical career which included pieces for organ and over 300 cantatas. Most notably‚ his works for organ are among his most revered and well known. Bach was known for not just his compositional skills but his performing skills on organ‚ keyboard‚ and violin. His use of harmony and contrapuntal techniques paved the
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