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Johann Sebastian Bach
A famous German composer of the Baroque period, who lived from 1685-1750.
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When was Johann Sebistan Bach born?
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. He died on July 28, 1750.
Who composed 'The Well-Tempered Clavichord'?
The clavichord is a type of keyboard instrument that is believed to have been invented in the 14th century. The first written references to the instrument occur at the turn of the 1500s. It is very likely that the clavichord evolved from the monochord, which was used to teach the theory of musical intervals. The mechanism of the clavichord, consisting of tangents which rise on the end of a key to strike a string and set it into vibration, allows the use of many tangents on individual strings (so long as two of the notes produced in this fashion are not needed at the same time.) This term "fretted clavichord" was applied to such an instrument. With a single tangent for each string, any combination of notes could be produced, and these clavichords had a special place until Bach's time as a composer's instrument, but clavichords were also used to accompany singing.
The quiet sound of the clavichord was no impediment to social music making in an era when the background noise level was far smaller than it is now. So there is little justification on claiming that the clavichord served only as a composer's instrument. There is enough evidence through the ages of its use to indicate that it was used in many capacities, including accompanying song.
As for why it was invented, there may never be a definitive answer. Certainly, the same period saw the development of organs and the harpsichord, but neither of them provided the control to the player that the clavichord does. It is most probable that the clavichord was created to provide that feature set that was missing from the other keyboard instruments of the time.
Who was Johann Sebastian first music teacher?
Johann Pachelbel was a famous German organist and composer who enjoyed enormous popularity while he was still alive. Johann Pachelbel is most famous for his contributions to sacred and secular music.
How many Brandenburg Concertri did Bach compose?
I believe that J.S. Bach wrote 6 Brandenburg Concertos:-
* Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
Is johann sebastian bach a baroque music composer or a classical music composer?
Both JC Bach (Johann Christian Bach) and CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) were composers during the Classical era.
Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach?
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What are the composers of the baroque era?
A few famous composers from the Baroque period would be Johann Sebastian BACH
George Frideric HANDEL
Antonio VIVALDI
Jean Philippe RAMEAU
Henry PURCELL
Tomaso ALBINONI
Giovanni Battista BONONCINI
Alessandro SCARLATTI (father)
Domenico SCARLATTI (son)
Georg Philipp TELEMANN
Unico Willem van Wanssenaer (the mystery composer)
What is Johann Sebastian Bach's accomplishments?
An easier question might be: what isn't his contribution? For my money he was the greatest composer ever, or at least in the period of common tonality since 1600. He wrote in every style except opera, and I don't doubt that he could have done that brilliantly if he'd had the chance. His contributions to music include but are not limited to the following.
1. He established the definitive form of every Baroque genre and style in which he wrote. His four orchestral suites, concertos (especially the six Brandenburgs), sacred cantatas, two Passions (the St Matthew and the St John), Goldberg Variations for keyboard and his sonatas and partitas for solo violin, his fugues and the jaw-dropping compendium of contrapuntal wizardry in his Musical Offering and Art of Fugue are just some examples.
2. Related to 1. above, his music is the cornerstone of the repertoire for every genre in which he wrote. The Brandenburgs are the standard Baroque concertos; no 'cellist can claim to be one without mastering the six solo 'cello suites; many organists make his organ music the main, if not the sole, content of their repertoire. For many people, when you say "Passion" and "cantata" you mean the Bach ones by default. It comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that other people wrote them, too!
3. Related to 2. above, this applies to every level. If you're a six-year-old starting to learn the piano, you won't get through many lessons without coming across the Minuet in G by Petzold that Bach collected for his wife. A grade or two later you'll play the first of the preludes (the one that Gounod foolishly arranged as his Ave Maria) from The Well-Tempered Clavier(WTC), itself the standard compendium of fugue technique. Then you'll quickly progress to the first of the Fifteen Inventions. When you become an established keyboardist (you might be specialising in harpsichord, organ or even clavichord by this stage), you could make a career solely from Bach: after the delightful French Suites you'll progress to the larger and more demanding English Suites and the Goldberg Variations, for instance. If you're learning harmony beyond the most basic level, the 371 chorales (Lutheran hymn tunes) harmonised by Bach and collected by Riemenschneider will be your textbook, defining how chords work and how individual parts or voices move. (That's perhaps his greatest contribution to music: when we say "tonal harmony", we mean basically the practice established by Bach, which is still standard practice for tonal music 250 years after his death.) If you're learning counterpoint (the independent movement of voices against each other), those same chorales will teach you that as well; you can then advance to his hundreds of fugues, from the wealth of fugue types in the WTC through the organ preludes and fugues and the ones in The Art of Fugue to the ones in his sacred choral works such as the two Kyries at the beginning of the Mass in B Minor. If you're a violinist, you might regard the solo violin sonatas and partitas as the greatest music for your instrument that you will ever play; likewise if you're a flautist for the solo flute suite and the solo lute works if you're a lutenist. The Passions, the cantatas and the motets are likewise among the cornerstones of the choral repertoire. (My favourite choral experience was singing in a local choir that was no more than reasonably good, but whose main repertoire was the cantatas. We did one of these works every month, and being immersed in this great music week by week at rehearsals was just pure heaven.)
4. He heavily influenced the music of many great composers who came after him. Schumann said: "Let the WTC be your daily bread. Then you will certainly become a solid musician"; he also said "Playing and studying Bach convinces us we are all numbskulls". Mozart absorbed Bach's influence in the last decade of his life, and it shows in the greater contrapuntal ingenuity and depth of his music over that time. For Wagner, Bach was "the most stupendous miracle in all of music", and his counterpoint in The Mastersingers clearly refers to that of Bach. Brahms said "Study Bach and you will find everything". Mahler said "In Bach the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God". Mendelssohn adored Bach, and arranged for the first performance of his St Matthew Passion in a century. The "atonal" composers like Schoenberg revived the Bach's contrapuntal influences in their own work, while Shostakovitch wrote a set of preludes and fugues in obvious imitation of the WTC. Generally speaking, his contribution to music exists in two forms: specific instances of influence like that of Shostakovitch, and the general result of study of his music, which invariably made the students' works deeper and put them in closer touch with the essence of music.
To sum up: you could think of Bach's influence as the funnel of his mighty genius, in which he collected, absorbed and synthesised the musical styles and forms of his day and realised their possibilities to the utmost, and through which he imparted to his successors the inspiration to take music to its limits.
What year did Johann Sebastian Bach compose the Coffee Cantata?
Yes he did. It's called (rough translation) The Coffee Cantata.
When did Johann Sebastian Bach start to play music?
Born in 1685, Bach was known mainly for his keyboarding skills in playing the organ. In August 1703, he accepted the position as the organist at a church (chapel of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar), which had a new organ tuned to a modern system that allowed a wide range of keys to be used. About this time, he began composing organ preludes. He was especially improvising preludes where a single, short music idea is explored throughout a movement.
did u know bach started to write music when he was only 4!
What is Frederick Kesner's birthday?
his full name is Frederick Alexander N. Kesner III, an Australian poet whose wife is Jacquiline and a daughter Kayla.
Who was considered to be a leading composer of the Baroque period?
There were many important composers of music in the Baroque. The most known were Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Handel, George Telemann, Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell, Domenico Scarlatti, John-Phillippe, Johan Pachelbel, and Giovanni Sammartini.
What did Johann Sebastian Bach sound like?
Sebastian Bach is 6'3 (191 cm) I think you have the wrong Sebastian Bach. You are quoting the height of the contemporary Canadian Sebastian Bierk (changed name to Bach). JS Bach would have been shorter. Johann Sebastian Bach's height as recorded by Professor Wilhelm His Professor of Anatomy at the University Of Leipzig who exhumed the grave in 1894 and measured the skeleton was 166.8 cm or 5 feet, 5. 7 inches. Now Bach being an elderly man, he may have lost height with age, so 5 feet 7.5 inches, may also be considered . Google ' The Exhumation 1894 '.
What are the dates of the Baroque periods?
1600 - 1750
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died of natural causes. He died on December 14, 1788 when he was 74 years of age.
What awards did Johann Sebastian Bach receive?
No awards. People were not given awards like today. Today every time someone does something they get an award. In the past they were lucky to be recognized and to make any money. Many artists and musicians died poor and it wasn't until they were dead that people liked their work.
What music did Johann Sebastian Bach write for orchestra?
not many surprisingly, he only wrote the 6 brandenburg concertos, and the 4 orchestral suites
What did Johann Sebastian bach do for a living?
His first few jobs (Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar) were as a church organist; he composed some for these, but playing was his main responsibility. In Cöthen and then in Leipzig, though a lot of his job was to write new music, he was also responsible for rehearsing the music and directing the performances. In Leipzig he had to teach music classes in the church school as well, and even taught Latin. Also, he taught private music lessons for much of his life. I don't know if he worked at any other trade or profession outside of these.
What were some of bachs songs?
Bach wrote quite a lot of songs, here is a list of all of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_and_arias_of_Johann_Sebastian_Bach
If you are looking for the most famous movements in his composition, I would probably say Air (from BWV 1068), Toccata in D Minor (from BWV 565), Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude (from BWV 147) and Minuet in G (BWV Anh. 115). As for his most famous whole compositions, probably the Mass in B Minor (BWV 232), the St. Matthew's Passion (BWV 244), the Brandenburg Concerti (BWV 1046-1051), the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), and several cantatas (like 140, 147, 8, 211 and 106).
Bach's works are so vast that giving you a mere five tracks seems to be unfair to the essence of the composer. Start with some discs of "The Best of Bach" or similar titles, and slowly work your way through the works of this amazing composer. I just gave you small taste here.
he only stayed in germany and most of the time with in a 150 mile radias of his birth place
