He died in Leipzig in 1750, survived by his second wife and nine of his 20 children, and leaving a matchless legacy of music that conveys a radiant vision of heaven on earth. Recommended recording: Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Susan Hamilton, Cecilia Osmond et al, Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt. The story of Christ’s Passion is told compellingly through expressive recitative and rousing choruses. ![]() While these alone would have secured his place among the immortals, he went on to create an unrivaled series of sacred and secular masterworks, the Mass in B minor, the Goldberg Variations, and The Art of Fugue among them. Johann Sebastian Bach was unequaled as a composer of organ and choral music and is considered the master of masters because his works inspired so many of. Bach ’s greatest work, so it’s widely believed. Matthew Passions-towering monuments of sacred music. Within five years, he completed around 150 church cantatas, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben among them, a majestic Magnificat, and the St. In 1723, having long served aristocratic employers, Bach became music director at St. His inventive genius and absolute mastery of counterpoint touched almost every genre of the day, including cantatas and organ pieces for sacred services and exhilarating concert works such as the Brandenburg Concertos and Four Orchestral Suites. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos, the four Orchestral Suites and inexhaustible supplies of keyboard music, such as the first volume of his famous Well-Tempered Clavier, are all products of these. After his father’s death (1750) he worked with his. Bach received his early training from his father and, probably, from his father’s cousin Johann Elias Bach. and Anna Magdalena Bach and prominent in the early Classical period. Born in 1685 into a large dynasty of musicians in the German town of Eisenach, Bach learned invaluable lessons as a boy chorister and church organist. BWV 566 Toccata and Fugue in E major (also published in C major) BWV 566a Toccata in E major (earlier version of BWV 566) BWV 567 Prelude in C major (possibly by Johann Ludwig Krebs) 9 BWV 568 Prelude in G major (doubtful) 9 BWV 569 Prelude in A minor. 1, 1782, London, Eng.), composer called the English Bach, youngest son of J.S. Matthew Passion in the Boston Music Hall on April 11, 1879. ![]() His perfectly crafted music uplifts heart and mind, inviting contemplation of life’s impermanence and the promise of eternal salvation, a point underlined by the dedication Soli Deo Gloria (“Glory to God alone”) inscribed on the manuscripts of so many of his compositions, both sacred and secular. Writings about Bachs concerted vocal music, both for academics and for general. A titan of the Baroque period, Johann Sebastian Bach created art that reveals profound truths about the human condition.
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