Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque Era -

Birthday: March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany.

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

From 1700 to 1702 he attended St. Michael's school in Luneburg' where he sang in the church choir and probably came into contact with the organist and composer Georg Bohm.

It appears that JS Bach had two wives. In 1707, at the age of 22, he married his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach with whom he had many children, only four of whom survived. Maria died suddenly in May 1720. The following year, Bach married again to Anna Magdalena Wilcken who was the daughter of a musician. She was a singer, harpsichordist and music copyist. She took on the four surviving children from his earlier marriage and produced a further 13.

Johann Sebastian Bach

It appears that JS Bach had two wives. In 1707, at the age of 22, he married his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach with whom he had many children, only four of whom survived. Maria died suddenly in May 1720. The following year, Bach married again to Anna Magdalena Wilcken who was the daughter of a musician. She was a singer, harpsichordist and music copyist. She took on the four surviving children from his earlier marriage and produced a further 13.

While at Leipzig, Bach taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the quality of organs. He was responsible for the musical education of some fifty-five students in the St. Thomas school. He rehearsed, conducted, and usually composed an extended work for chorus, soloists and orchestra for each Sunday and holiday of the church year.

Bach had 20 children in total. From his first marriage with Maria Barbara Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach had seven children, four of which survived into adulthood. The four who survived were Catharina Dorothea, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Gottfried Berhard.

From his second marriage with Anna Magdalena Wilcke, Bach had 13 children, six who survived to adulthood. The six who survived were Gottfried Heinrich, Elisabeth Juliana Friederica, Johann Christoph Friedrich, Johann Christian, Johanna Carolina, and Regina Susanna.

The four most famous who also became composers, were:

Carl Philipp Emanuel

Johann Christian

Wilhelm Friedemann

Johann Christoph Friedrich

The link below has a good family tree diagram showing some of his many children.

Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children.

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His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, town and court musician of Eisenach taught Johann Sebastian Bach music.

Johann Sebastian Bach, was a baroque composer. He was born in Saxe-Eisenach, Germany, in 21 March 1685. His death was in Leipzig, Germany in 28 July 1750. He has 20 children, but there are only 10 had survived to adulthood. His first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (1684-1720), his second cousin, bore him 7 children, but only 4 survived to adulthood, they are Catharina Dorothea (1708-1774), Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784), Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) and Johann Gottfried Bernhard (1715-1739). His second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach (born Wilcke, 1701-1760), bore him 13 children that only 6 children survived to adulthood, 2 of them are Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795) and Johann Christian (the 'London' Bach, 1735-1782). His first wife died when he was 35 years old, while his second wife died 9 a-half years after his death.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Organ Fugue in G minor (Little Fugue) in 1709

Bach lived, worked, and performed in the Baroque period.

German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was born on March 31, 1685 (March 21 on the Julian calendar then in use). He died at the age of 65. The year 2018 marks the 333rd anniversary of his birth.

During Bach's lifetime, he was known mostly for his skills as an organist and organ technician. He was not well known for his compositional output during his lifetime for two main reasons:

1) Bach composed in a polyphonic fugal style that was considered to be going out of fashion starting around 1730 or so in favor of a more homophonic cosmopolitan style that appealed to the growing middle class. The use of polyphonic forms such as passacaglia, ritornello form, and fugue were considered relics of a musical style that was needlessly complex, elitist, and lacked expressive directness.

2) Unlike Handel (who was a world traveller) Bach spent almost his entire life in Germany working in small courts such as Weimar and Cothen. Even though his last decades were spent in the larger city of Leipzig, he never settled in large cities known for music such as London, Paris, or Vienna.

vivaldi worked in an orphanage for daughters of noblemen and there mistresses.

Handel's YOUNG MESSIAH is a beautiful walk through the Bible, and suitable for listening any time of the year. If you are a believer in Christ and Eternity you will most likely desire your own copy. I began to listen to it 20 yrs ago this next Spring.

He allowed Mozart to create more music.

Bach was most famous as an organist.

Yes, Bach was very devoted to the Lutheran traditions.

There were many events taking place in America during Bach's lifetime. The Enlightenment Period and the Scientific Revolution were taking place as well as the Revolutionary War and the discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton.

just mainly cuz he his music is the famous music in the 19 century