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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period known for his orchestral works, instrumental compositions, keyboard works, organ works, and vocal music. He was orphaned at age 10 but continued his musical education and worked in churches and courts as a musician throughout Germany. As Thomaskantor in Leipzig for over 20 years, he composed extensively for the city's churches and university. Bach enriched German musical styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmony, and adaptation of styles from other countries. Throughout his life and the 18th century, he was valued as an organist, but the 19th century saw renewed widespread interest in his full works.

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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period known for his orchestral works, instrumental compositions, keyboard works, organ works, and vocal music. He was orphaned at age 10 but continued his musical education and worked in churches and courts as a musician throughout Germany. As Thomaskantor in Leipzig for over 20 years, he composed extensively for the city's churches and university. Bach enriched German musical styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmony, and adaptation of styles from other countries. Throughout his life and the 18th century, he was valued as an organist, but the 19th century saw renewed widespread interest in his full works.

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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period known for his orchestral works, instrumental compositions, keyboard works, organ works, and vocal music. He was orphaned at age 10 but continued his musical education and worked in churches and courts as a musician throughout Germany. As Thomaskantor in Leipzig for over 20 years, he composed extensively for the city's churches and university. Bach enriched German musical styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmony, and adaptation of styles from other countries. Throughout his life and the 18th century, he was valued as an organist, but the 19th century saw renewed widespread interest in his full works.

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    Johann Sebastian Bach[n 2] (31 March [O.S.

    21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a


    German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his
    orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; instrumental compositions such
    as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-
    Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and
    Fugue in D minor; and 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 in the history of Western music.[2][3]

    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 the age of
    10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which
    he continued his musical education 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's) in Leipzig. There 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 III 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,[4] 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 the Air on the G String and "Jesu, Joy of Man's
    Desiring", 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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