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Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
Name: Johann Sebastian Bach
Birth Date: March 21, 1685
Death Date: July 28, 1750
Place of Birth: Eisenach, Germany
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer, organist, musician
Johann Sebastian Bach
The works of the German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) are the ultimate expression of polyphony. He is probably the only composer ever able to make full use of the possibilities of art available in his time.Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, organist at St. George's Church, and Elizabeth Lämmerhirt Bach. He was the culmination of the family's long line of musicians, beginning with his great-grandfather, Veit Bach, who was a professional violinist in Gotha, and the name Bach was considered a synonym for musician. The Bach family was extremely loyal to the Lutheran faith. Throughout the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the religious turmoil affected four generations of Bachs, who remained unwaveringly faithful to their Lutheran persuasion.Bach's first music lessons were on the violin, with his father as instructor. Having a beautiful soprano voice, he also …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…The Master and His Work (1936; trans. 1957), and Russell Hancock Miles, Johann Sebastian Bach: An Introduction to His Life and Works (1962). The Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach includes over 1,000 entries by 28 scholars and provides wide-ranging coverage of different subjects including his compositions, family, and era. Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, eds., The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents (1945), treats Bach from the human-interest viewpoint. See also Karl Geiringer, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era (1966). Bach's work in the context of the times is discussed in Manfred F. Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach (1947), and in Paul Henry Lang, Music in Western Civilization (1941). Two contrasting biographies, published simultaneously in 2001, are the engaging and irreverent The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by Klaus Eidam, and the solid, carefully researched Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff.
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