Johann Sebastian Bach - was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, died. July 28, 1750 in Leipzig) - He was the eighth and last child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, urban music and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt.Matka Bach died in 1694, and soon his father died suddenly in February 1695, John Sebastian has not yet had time for 10 years. He moved to his elder brother, Johann Christoph, who was organist at Ohrdruf. In his home he continued Bach transcribed notes, study and play on different instrumentach.Pochodził of the family numbering several hundred years. Each member of this family name was Johann
just in Ohrdruf Bach began to learn about organ building. Bodies in the church in Ohrdruf required, it seems, continuous repair and often the young Bach were sent to repair or exchange some parts. Bodies were the most complicated instrument in Europe. Practical knowledge of the construction of the useful to him later when he played for them.
Bach married his distant cousin, Maria Barbara, in 1707 the Dornheim, following a decline in 1950 guilders. They had seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood. She died suddenly in 1720, when Bach was traveling with Prince Leopold. 2
wife While in Cothen, Bach met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young soprano. They were married in 1721 Despite the age difference, pair formed a successful marriage. Anna support his composing, and John Sebastian persuaded her to sing. Together they had 13 children.
All the Bach children were musically inclined. His sons Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach all became accomplished musicians, and Johann Christian had a big influence on the early works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although there were many barriers to women's music career at the time, all of Bach's daughters most likely sang and possibly played in their father's ensembles. Bach's only daughter, who married (Elisabeth Juliana Friederica) chose the student's father, husband, Johann Christoph Altnikola. With Bach's children survived many of his works. Carl Philipp CPE called these works of the Old Bach Archive.
In Leipzig, Bach was friends with poet Picanderem, which then created the libretto for many of his works. Bach and his wife were guests in his home of many musicians from all over Germany, including Telemann (who was one of the godfathers of Carl Philipp Emanuel). It is interesting that Handel, who was born in Halle (about 50 miles from Leipzig) in the same year as Bach, made several trips to Germany, but Bach could never to meet with him, which I very much regret.
He was extremely devout, which he expressed in a conscious preference for his work in church music, written "for the greater glory of God" ... Bach's musical style at the end of his life was regarded as anachronistic, and works too little value!.
Passion according to Luke. Matthew (BWV 244) on Good Friday. In letters he wrote about her as a great passion and carefully created a manuscript of the work.
Passion according to Luke. Matthew - the latest, one of the two passions that have survived in its entirety by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was created in the last period of his creativity when he served as cantor at St.. Thomas in Leipzig. The premiere took place on Good Friday, April 15, 1729. Then lay 100 years in the archives of forgotten until it was discovered and introduced the world to Felix Mendelssohn's March 11, 1829 in Berlin Singakademie
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text here Known for bawdy humor , for the rest of his life he loved fun and drinking wine. Bach's last years he fought with progressive blindness.
full of passion ... biography in Wikipedia
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