What are major life events of Johann Sebastian bach?

Answer 1

· 1.) In 1685 J S Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.

· 2.) At the age of 14, Bach, along with his older school friend George Erdmann, was awarded a choral scholarship to study at the prestigious St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.

· 3.) In January 1703, shortly after graduating and failing an audition for an organist's post at Sangerhausen. Bach was a post as a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar, a large town in Thuringia.

· 4.)He took over the directorship of the Collegium Musicum, a secular performance ensemble that had been started in 1701 by his old friend, the composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

· 5.)The final work Bach completed was a chorale prelude for organ, dictated to his son-in-law, Johann Altnikol, from his deathbed. Entitled Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (Before thy throne I now appear)

· 6.) Bach died on 28 July 1750 at the age of 65.

Answer 2

Most of Bach's recorded in history is his music life and not his private life. One thing historians agree is that he came almost blind and that he had a unsuccesfull operation. Historians speculate the cause of death was a stroke complicated by pneumonia.

Answer 3

From what I know, he married and had many, many children. Most of them became musicians and Composers too.