The one piece most people are likely to recognize, even if they don't know the title, is the Toccata and Fugue in d minor, which was famously animated by the Disney Studio in 1939's Fantasia. It has been used as background and incidental music in countless movies.

well he was influenced very early on by Dietrich Buxtehude, if that helps :s

the Well-Tempered Clavier

fugue

No, he didn't. He studied music under his famous father and (perhaps) his brother Johann Elias Bach until his father died. He then studied under his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for a few years before going off to Vienna to study under Giovanni Battista Martini.

He learnt from his father and his uncles, they also taught him how to play the organ and the harpischord. His father and one of his uncles were famous musicians, his father - Johann Amrosius Bach and one of his uncles - Johann Christoph Bach a famous organist. His brother, also names Johann Christoph Bach, taught him how to play the calvichord when he was about 10 years old.

The recurring theme of the piece. It can be presented with different tempos or keys.

· 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.

Bach wrote during the period called the Baroque. Bach was writing at the end of this period, and even during his lifetime tastes were shifting to what would be called the Rococo. His music is extremely varied and some consider him to be the greatest composer of all time. He wrote music for several solo instruments including cello, organ, harpsichord and clavichord. The Well Tempered Clavichord and The Goldberg Variations are two of the better known of several collections of brilliant keyboard music. He wrote a large amount of church music including a famous collection of cantatas. He wrote orchestral pieces and concertos including the well known Brandenberg Concertos. His contributions to and influence on organ music are immense.

Baroque music is characterized by a more cerebral and analytical approach, including the creation of rich and complex fugue structures that can contain complex and multi-layered harmonies.

The prelude in c major is the first piece in the Well-tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach. The "Ave Maria" melody, plus one additional bar in the prelude, were superimposed by Charles Gounod c. 150 years later.

The most famous composers who were contemporary of Bach were:

-Telemann, Hasse, Graupner, Quantz and Keiser in Germany.

-Marais, Couperin and Rameau in France.

-Albinoni, Vivaldi, Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti, Tartini, Locatelli, Geminiani, Veracini, Porpora and Pergolesi in Italy.

-Handel, Arne and Avison in Great Britain.

-Heinichen and Zelenka in Austria.

He wrote 18 sonatas for piano. There is also a traditional "19th" sonata which consist of two separate works usually performed as a complete sonata. He wrote 17 church sonatas. He wrote 36 violin sonatas. He also wrote 3 other chamber sonatas, one for bassoon and cello, and two for violin and bass.

If my math is correct, he wrote 75 sonatas.

Beethoven's last completed piece was the replacement finale to his string quartet Op. 130 in B-flat. It was written as a substitute for the Grosse Fuge, which some of his friends found too long and weighty.

Actually two great composers were born in the same year as Handel -one was Johann Sebastian Bach and the other was Domenico Scarlatti -there were probably dozens of less important ones born in that year -1685 I think.

Bach is...

- A composer

- Lived long ago

- Classical music

- German

Marsalis...

-Musician (Trumpet player)

-Jazz music

-Lives now

-American

I'd suggest you listen to the different music of each. That's the biggest difference. There's a whole world between classical and jazz. Take the swung-note figure, or the culture even of the jazz world into account.

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Johann Sebastian Bach died on July 28, 1750.

The composer was Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750).

Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque Era -

Born - 21st March, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany

Died - 28th July, 1750 in Leipzig, Germany

Musicians were common to the Bach family. At the time of Sebastian, there were 50 musical members. His sons -Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann, and Johann Christoph Friedrich-became composers in their own right.

Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque Era -

Birthday: March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany.

Bach died on July 28, 1750 in Leipzig, Germany.