This compilation is destined to be a standard source for years to come."-"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites and Brandenburg Concertos keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations, The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the. An extremely useful annotated list of Bach's compositions by category and title completes the volume. 21 March 1685 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. For many years, members of the Bach family throughout Thuringia had held positions such as organists, town instrumentalists, or Cantors, and the family name. The text is enriched with illustrations of Bach, his family tree, and manuscripts. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st l685, the son of Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. The lengthier essays cover his major works, compositions, recordings, and impact on various musical traditions. Detailed, technical, and authoritative, over 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries cover Bach's life, family, pupils, and patrons as well as musical and technical terms. This offered a unique identification of all of Bach's known works, a system that was quickly adopted, for instance by the biographers: Philipp Spitta used it complementarily to the Peters edition numbering for the BG volumes that.
JS BACH SERIES
In this impressive first volume of a new series from Oxford University Press, music researchers and aficionados alike will find information on every imaginable topic relating to Bach. In the second half of the 19th century the Bach-Gesellschaft (BG) published all of Bach's works in around 50 volumes, the so-called Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). In his case, an unconventional life and greatness went hand in hand."Want to know everything about Bach and his music but are afraid to look? Fear no longer. It would take almost 80 years for Bach's work to be resurrected beyond a small circle of admirers, ensuring his status as one of the greatest composers of all time. So it's surprising to note that his music was not well known during his lifetime, and that it virtually disappeared after his death. Bach's personal life was quite colorful, too he fathered 20 children (several of whom were notable composers in their own right), and was blinded by a quack doctor.īach's legacy continues to reverberate throughout the classical music world. His now-beloved Brandenburg Concertos, for instance, were written to try to win over a potential patron - and they failed. Offering '30 Days of Peace and Music,' Bachstock is WQXR's November festival devoted to the life and times of J.S. Bach's mother died in 1694, and Johann's father died eight months later, leaving the child an orphan before the age of ten. His father, also named Johann, was a seventh-generation musician who taught his son musical fundamentals. Bach lost both his parents when he was 10 years old.
JS BACH HOW TO
His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach was a 7th generation musician, and carried on the tradition by teaching him how to play the violin. Delve into his biography, and odd facts about Bach pop up. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 31, 1685. Johann Sebastian Bach was born Main Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. With religious music so involving he could inspire faith in non-believers, the German composer’s sense of harmony makes him a shared reference point for.
JS BACH MANUAL
Please consult the manual of style for creating composer work lists. But he was also more than a little eccentric. A list of works in the composer category that are not included here can be found on this page. "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor." When you consider his body of work, there's no denying that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the towering musicians of the Baroque period.