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Johann Sebastian Bach 2
Title: Johann Sebastian Bach 2
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Johann Sebastian Bach 2
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 …showed first 75 words of 289 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 289 total…for clavier 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 FUGUE.
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