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Johann Sebastian Bach - College Term Paper

Johann Sebastian Bach

Born: March 21, 1685
Died: July 28, 1750
Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany
Age at Death: 65
Biography

Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family.
At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt.
Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and
Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's
choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His
second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted
as his ...

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and for organ is of equal importance and
includes the collection of 48 preludes and fugures known as THE WELL-
TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH
SUITES.

Of his organ music, the most imporant examples are the choral preludes. He
also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the
later years illustrate the principles and potential of his polyphic art -
THE MUSICAL OFFERING and THE ART OF ...

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Added: 12/25/2005 07:10:28 AM
Category: Biographies
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