Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the ''Goldberg Variations'' and ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the ''Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the ''St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician, Johann Ambrosius, in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer periods, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723, he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. There, he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city and its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726, he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer. This situation was little remedied when his sovereign, Augustus III of Poland, granted him the title of court composer in 1736. In the last decades of his life, he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after a botched eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.
Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic, and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works but, for instance, also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. He wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments. He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his works employ contrapuntal techniques like canon and fugue.
Throughout the 18th century, Bach was primarily valued as an organist, while his keyboard music, such as ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', was appreciated for its didactic qualities. The 19th century saw the publication of some significant Bach biographies, and by the end of that century, all of his known music had been printed. Dissemination of scholarship on the composer continued through periodicals (and later also websites) exclusively devoted to him and other publications such as the ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' (BWV, a numbered catalogue of his works) and new critical editions of his compositions. His music was further popularised through a multitude of arrangements, including the ''Air on the G String'' and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", and of recordings, such as three different box sets with complete performances of the composer's oeuvre marking the 250th anniversary of his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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Partita g-Moll für Oboe solo nach BWV 1013 / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Kiri's Coventry carols. by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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"Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (Orgelbüchlein, BWV 639): for string quartet (octet ad lib.) / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Ricercar from "The musical offering" for wind nonet (1999) / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Air, from "Suite no. 3 in D" / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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"Air" from suite no. 3 / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Jesu, joy of man's desiring : for tuba quartet / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Aria - duet from Cantata no. 78 / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Air from Suite in D major / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Badinerie : from "Suite no. 2 in b minor" / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Brandenburg no. 3 / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Jesu, joy of man's desiring : [for flute, oboe, horn, clarinet, and bassoon] / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Come, sweet death / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Toccata and fugue in D minor / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Passacaglia in C minor / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Fugue in C minor / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott = (A mighty fortress) : [Bach version] / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Sleeper's awake / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Contrapunctus IX / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Fantasia and fugue in C minor : BWV 537 / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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