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    Johann Sebastian Bach

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    "Bach" redirects here. For Bach's grandson, see Johann Sebastian Bach (painter). For
    his musical family, see Bach family. For other uses, see Bach (disambiguation).

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach, 1746

    Born 21 March 1685 (O.S.)

    31 March 1685 (N.S.)

    Eisenach

    Died 28 July 1750 (aged 65)

    Leipzig

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    Johann Sebastian Bach[a] (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a


    German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental
    compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for
    vocal music such as the St  Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-
    century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers
    of all time.[3][4]
    The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born
    as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at age 10, he lived
    for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his
    musical formation in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a
    musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches
    of time, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen,
    where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723 he was employed
    as Thomaskantor (cantor at St. Thomas) in Leipzig. He composed music for the
    principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student
    ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and
    organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had
    difficult relations with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was
    granted the title of court composer by his sovereign, Augustus, Elector of Saxony and
    King of Poland, in 1736. In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many
    of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the
    age of 65.
    Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery
    of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms,
    forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's
    compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He composed
    Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns,
    not only in his larger vocal works, but for instance also in his four-part chorales and his
    sacred songs. He wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments.
    He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as
    chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his works employ the genres
    of canon and fugue.
    Throughout the 18th century Bach was primarily valued as an organist, while his
    keyboard music, such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, was appreciated for its didactic
    qualities. The 19th century saw the publication of some major Bach biographies, and by
    the end of that century all of his known music had been printed. Dissemination of
    scholarship on the composer continued through periodicals (and later also websites)
    exclusively devoted to him, and other publications such as the Bach-Werke-
    Verzeichnis (BWV, a numbered catalogue of his works) and new critical editions of his
    compositions. His music was further popularised through a multitude of arrangements,
    including, for instance, the Air on the G String, and of recordings, such as three different
    box sets with complete performances of the composer's oeuvre marking the 250th
    anniversary of his death.

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