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Johann Sebastian Bach
A famous German composer of the Baroque period, who lived from 1685-1750.
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What are bachs birth and death dates?
Johann Sebastian Bach:
* Born: March 31, 1685 * Died: July 28, 1750
What was Bachs favorite musical instrument?
His main instrument was the pipe organ. He also played the harpsichord.
What Musical Era Johann Sebastian Bach is part of?
Bach's life span is from 1685-1750. He belongs to the Baroque era. In his later years, he try to specialize in his Baroque forms where other composers (including his sons) deviated from the Baroque culture to classical galant style.
JS Bach was extremely prolific, he composed at least one piece of music every day of his adult life.
Here is a list of the best In my opinion
the well tempered clavier
The Brandenburg concerto
Tocatta and fugue in d minor
St Matthews Passion
The Goldberg variations
How did bach affect the baroque era of music?
He inspired other musicians like Mozart to make music too
What kind of music did Bach write?
Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer. He wrote several concertos, chorales, and pieces of music known as "Passions". His music was considered to be Baroque. Baroque music is a style of music that was popular during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What are two of Bach's most famous organ compositions?
You bet! Here's seven:
# Johann Sebastian Bach # Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach # Gottfried Heinrich Bach # Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach # Johann Christian Bach # Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach # Willhelm Friedemann Bach
When did bach write his etude in e minor?
Minuet was in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, which was written in from 1722-1725, but where the Minuet was found was written in 1725.
What is the characteristic of cantata?
Cantata Performers are individuals that sing in a Cantata. A Cantata is basically a choir that sings music mostly from the Baroque period.
What are 3 of Bach's most famous pieces?
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musical genius. Some of Bach's well known pieces are "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" "Toccatta and and Fugue in D Minor" as well as his variations of Preludes, Fugues, and Fantasia series.
What was the year when bach wrote his first symphony?
The answer would be c. 1723. But what he called Sinfonia was quite different from what we mean using the term today. He used the word for the three-part keyboard pieces he composed c. 1723 for his first son, Wilhelm Friedemann, for practicing his keyboard technique.
Bach also used the term Sinfonia for the instrumental movements, most of which in concerto form, which opened some of his cantatas.
Sinfonia, which is Italian spelling for the Greek term symphonia, simply means "sounding together" or "coordinated sounds". The Italian translation would be "concerto".
Where did bach live most of his life?
Johann Christian Bach lived in his home town of Leipzig in Germany until he was twenty-one years old, he then moved to Italy where he stayed for six years. Then, in 1762, he moved to London where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life, hence the nickname 'the English Bach'. He is buried at St. Pancras Churchyard in London.
I researched the exact whereabouts of Bach's house and apparently he lived at 80 Newman St. in London between 1773 and shortly before his death in 1782.
He died because nobody lives for ever. If anyone could, I would wish it were him. If you mean what caused his death, it was reported at the time as complications following an eye operation. Some now believe it was a combination of pneumonia and stroke. Either way, it ended the life of a truly great composer.
What is bach most popular music?
Bach was fairly popular in his day but he lived under the shadow of George Philip Telemann. Telemann was the greatest composer of his day because he combined many popular styles from different nationalities.
Bach was well respected too though. He would have been amoungst the greatest composers of the day. It was only after Mendelssohn's revival of the composer that Bach really took off in popularity though, as Telemann became less celebrated.
But in a nutshell, yes, he was popular in his day. But only in later years was he recognised as a genius.
Actually, they are not the same person. Johann Christian Bach is the son of Johann Sebastian Bach . You can check http://www.jsbach.org/timeline.HTML for more information also.
No, they are not the same person. Johann Christian as well as Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philip Emmanuel, and Johann Christoph (Johann was a popular name in their family) were all sons of Johann Sebastian Bach. For a complete Bach family tree you can look at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_family
The confusion with the names probably stemmed from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook. One year, J.S. Bach gave his wife, Anna Magdalena, a birthday present - a beautiful notebook with blank pages for her and her children to copy their favourite songs into. This notebook has been preserved, and contains many pieces in the "gallant" style (simple and elegant, many are dance pieces). Some are pieces written by J.S. Bach himself, some are written by Anna Magdalena, some are written by one of the children, and some are written by family friends. Unfortunately, the names of the composers were never written in with the pieces (copyright wasn't a big deal in those days), so in the past, all of the pieces from the Notebook were published under the name of J.S. Bach. Now, more research has been done and we have a little better understanding of the respective composers. I hope that helps.
Johann Christian Bach was descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach so no they are not the same person.
How many songs did Johann Sebastian Bach write?
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote over one-thousand compositions. A catalog numbering system was created in 1950 by Wolfgang Schmieder and each composition was assigned a BWV number.
BWV is the German acronym for Bach-Verke-Verzeichnistranslated: Bach Work Catalog. The numbering system grouped works thematically, so they are not in any chronological order. Thus, a low number as in BWV 232 does not necessarily mean that this was an early work of JS Bach.
The present BWV catalog indicates there were 1,127 works written by Bach.
It should be noted, though, that a small number of these works are now thought to have been attributed to Bach in error, and that many of his works are known to have been lost after his death, meaning that the total number of works he actually wrote is significantly higher.
How many kids does john s bach have?
Johann Sebastian Bach had 7 children to his first wife and 13 to his second wife making a total of 20. 10 of the children did not survive childhood.
Johann Sebastian Bach famous for?
Bach was know for composing Great classical music, such as the six Cello suites,
Jesus, Joy of mans desiring...ect.... and many other famous organ music including the great toccata and fugue in D Minor.
