bach was famous for his compositions.
Carl Philip Emanual Bach (CPE Bach) and Wilhelm Friedmann Bach were Bach's famous sons. Both were also composers.
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Bach's most famous song is Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Bach was most famous as an organist.
Leonardo DaVinci was the famous painter; Bach and Beethoven were famous composers.
Bach never composed any opera's. He did compose cantata's, however.
Catherine Bach became famous when she starred in "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV show (1979-1986) as the character Daisy Duke.
Baroque
He was famous as a musician during his lifetime because he was talented.
He was famous for writing minuets
His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a well-known council musician in Eisenach. Most of Bach's relatives were famous musicians in that area of Germany.
Bach was influenced by his father and Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, another famous composer in the Baroque time period.