Write ONE fact about J.S. Bach.
Every fact should be unique. Since there are 59 students in the class, the longer you wait to post an answer, the more obscure your fact will need to be.
*Update: you must read through others' posts to see if you are repeating something that has already been said.
Due: Wednesday, September 7
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st, 1685 and died on July 28th, 1750.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. He was an organist, teacher, and composer.
Aside from composing and playing the organ, Bach also played the viola, violin, and the harpsichord.
Bach's main goal for his music was to glorify god. On many of his compositions, he signed "Soli dio gloria," meaning "To God alone the glory."
Bach's chorals are one of the central focuses/recources in the study/teaching of music theory.
On 28 July 1750 Bach died at the age of 65.
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Bach was best known during his lifetime as an composer of organ works, an organist, and an organ consultant. He composed in the traditional German genres such as preludes, toccatas, and fantasias. He had a great reputation at a young age for his creativity and ability to put foreign styles into his organ compositions.
Bach met Pachelbel (famous composer) at his brother's wedding when he was 9 years old.
bach received an inheritance from his uncle, tomas lammerhirt, and celebrated by marrying his second cousin
Bach had 7 children with his first wife (4 of which survived to adulthood) and 13 with his second wife (6 survived to adulthood)
Bach's first wife(Maria Barbara) was his second cousin and he had 7 children with, 4 of which survived to adulthood(Catharina Dorothea, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Gottfried Berhard) , and 2 followed in Bach's footsteps and became famous composers (Wilhelm Friedemann, and Carl Philipp Emanuel)
His father was Johann Ambrosius Bach, who was the director of the town's musicians. Bach's uncles also were professional musicians.
Bach's parents were Johann Ambrosius Bach and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt.
Bach was once in prison from November 6th to December 2nd, where he wrote his famous "Orgelbuchlein" a learning book for the organ.
Bach was taught to play the violin and the harpsichord by his father,Johann Ambrosius, in the Duck of Eisenach's family home.
His name, Bach, means stream in english.
His mother died in 1694, and his father died eight months afterwords making Bach an orphan at age 10.
Bach died due to complications from eye surgery.
Despite the fame of his works in the short term after his death, his works were regarded as old fashioned. however in the long run, his contrapuntal style inspired many following classical composers, including Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven who deemed him the "father of harmony"
Bach had 20 children, and he taught many of them to play instruments, and composed, "the little book for the keyboard" for his nine year old son
Bach studied orthodox Lutheranism, rhetoric, logic, Latin and Greek, arithmetic, history, geography, and German poetry while in school.
Johann Sebastian Bach married Maria Barbara Bach. Who was the daughter of his father-in-law, Johann Michael Bach. That makes Maria Bach his second cousin
Bach had 20 kids throughout his life. He had 7 with his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach, and 13 more kids with his second wife, Anna Madgalena Bach.
Bach produced 1,127 different compositions.
When Bach was 10 years old, his father died (a year after his mother passed away) and Bach left his hometown of Eisenach to live with brother, Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf.
At the age of 14, Bach along with his friend, George Erdmann, were awarded a choral scholarship to study at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
Although he traveled frequently, Bach never ventured beyond a 150-mile radius of his birthplace, and never left Germany.
There is an anecdote about when
Bach was living with his brother Johann Christoph. Bach wanted to learn his brother's hard music, but Christoph wouldn't let him see it. So Bach stole the music during the middle of the night and for six months copied the music by moonlight.
Bach was in prison from November 6 to December 2, 1717
Some of Bach's most famous compositions include The Brandenberg Concertos, Well-Tempered Clavier, and Art of the Fugue.
Johann Sebastian Bach had had twenty children in his lifetime, teaching all of them how to play the piano. Many of whom went on to become musicians.
He composed Barogue music.
Johann Sebastian Bach devoted his personal relationship with the Christian God in the Lutheran traditional faith. Because of the high demand for religious style of music, Bach made religious tunes/music to be the centre of his repertory.
Bach wrote a cantata about his coffee addiction
^ i meant coffee addiction in general
Bach taught many of his children to play musical instruments. He even composed "the little book for the keyboard" for his 9-year-old son William Friedemann.
When Bach was young he was very curious about music. Sometimes he would take lengthy trips to hear famous musicians such as Johann Adam Rienken and Buxtehude preform.
Bach accepted the job as Kantor at the Thomasschule after living and spending his day in Cothen. He was in charge of arranging music for the four main churches in the town, he composed most of his music in Leipzig. Bach lived there for the rest of his life until he died in 1750.
Bach's best-known orchestral works are the Brandenburg concertos, so named because he submitted them in the hope of gaining employment from Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721; his application was unsuccessful.
Bach wrote over 200 cantatas, and for a period of several years, he wrote one nearly every week.
Johann Sebastian Bach could sit down at the keyboard and improvise fugues, a composition in which a short melody or phrase is introduced by one part and taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
When Bach was in his twenties, he pulled a sword on a bassoonist to duel because he had accused him of slander.
Bach's musical abilities were only well known throughout Europe during his time period, but later in the first half of the nineteenth century he was globally recognized for being a great composer when people became more interested in performances of his music. He is now known as one of the best composers of Baroque music style and of classical music too.
Bach's major compositions were Little Book for the Keyboard and The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2 for the harpsichord, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for the organ,Brandenburg Concertos for orchestra and Christmas Oratario and St. Matthew Passion for choral.
Bach's first job was to play during special services at the Muhlhausen church.The music he played was composed by none other than Bach himself.
In 1706 Bach was offered a post as organist at St. Blasius's in Mühlhausen, which he took up the following year.
Bach was put into jail because the Duke did not want him to change jobs. This is more than just your regular job security.
his last name means brook, as in flowing water. beethoven said his name should have been more along the lines of "sea".
The great majority of Bach's contatas were composed between 1721 and 1730.
Only about half of Bach's 20 children ever reached adulthood
Bach is reguarded as one of the main composors of the Baroque style, which by the way was a style of western classical music from 1600 to 1750.
Bach was in prison from November 6, 1777 to December 2nd, 1777. It was there that he wrote his famous organ book, Orgelbüchlein.
Bach's last piece he wrote although unfinished was called die kunst der fuge, which means the art of fugue.
Bach died from having a stroke
Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" has been used in a variety of popular media today through movies (Dracula) and several others things.
Bach used to walk long distances to hear famous organists, one of whom was named Buxtehude. However, he never met the famous composer and fellow countryman, George Handel.
Bach was resonsible for the music at the churches of St. Nicholas and St. Peter
Bach came from a 7 generation family full of talented composers and instrumentalists.
Near the end of his life, Bach's fugues and style of music started giving way to a lighter style and his sons nicknamed him "old powdered wig".
The S in J.S Bach stand for sebastian.
He also has an oxter
Four of Bach's children became composers as adults including; Johann Christian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
The Art of Fugue was J.S. Bach's final piece of work, was published posthumously, and never finished. It was written in the 1740s, a few years before his death in the 1750s.
The very popular and famous song "Ave Maria" was written in 1859 by Charles Gounod, but his melody was taken from Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846, from Book I of The Well Tempered Clavier.
While he was alive, he was known much more for his organ playing, than his composing. He was well known for his excellent improvisation skills.
He wrote a piece about his second wife Anna called Notenburchlein fur Anna Magnelena Bach
Right after his death, Bach's reputation declined as his music was regarded as old fashioned and was not up in par with contemporary music of that time.
Bach wrote many cantata which are compositions for one or more voices, usually made up of solos, duets, and chorusses. They are typically sung to an instrumental accompaniment.
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