Johann Sebastian Bach
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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, 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Englewood, New Jersey : Channel Classics, 2000
Englewood, New Jersey : Channel Classics, 2000
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
New York : Nonesuch Records, 1966
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Berlin, Berlin State : EuroArts, 2000
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
München : G. Henle Verlag, 2020
München : G. Henle Verlag, 2020
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Kassel ; New York : Bärenreiter, 2018
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Australia : ABC Classics, 2012
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
New York : RCA Victor Red Seal, 1995
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Germany : Telefunken 1964
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Germany : Telefunken 1969
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
London : Oxford University Press, 1945
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Holzgerlingen, Germany : Hänssler, 1999
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Holzgerlingen, Germany : Hänssler, 1999
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by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Holzgerlingen, Germany : Hänssler, 1998
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