Johann Sebastian Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach is an instance of human.
Johann Sebastian Bach has gender male.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a composer.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a organist.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a harpsichordist.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a violinist.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a conductor.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a choir director.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a concertmaster.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a musicologist.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a music educator.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a virtuoso.
Johann Sebastian Bach works as a school teacher.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach.
Johann Sebastian Bach died on 28/7/1750.
Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig.
Johann Sebastian Bach is married to Anna Magdalena Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach is married to Maria Barbara Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach was employed by Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
Johann Sebastian Bach was employed by Bachkirche Arnstadt.
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
He is known for his mastery of counterpoint, as heard in The Musical Offering and The Art of Fugue.
Felix Mendelssohn precipitated the Bach Revival with a performance of the St Matthew Passion in 1829.
Ever since, Bach has been acclaimed as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
The Bach family had already produced several composers when Johann Sebastian was born in Eisenach, the youngest child of the city musician Johann Ambrosius Bach.
After being orphaned at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph, then continued his musical education in Lüneburg.
In 1703 he returned to Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen.
Around that time he also paid extended visits to the courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and the reformed court at Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music.
By 1723 he was hired as Thomaskantor, church music director of the city of Leipzig and thus responsible for music in four Lutheran city churches and for the St Thomas School.
He decided to compose annual cycles of church cantatas, and also wrote music for Leipzig University's student ensemble, Collegium Musicum.
External references: Wikidata Q1339