Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and vocal music 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 of all time. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. Having become an orphan at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother, after which he continued his musical formation in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar—where he expanded his repertoire for the organ—and Köthen—where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723 he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St. Thomas) in Leipzig. He composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened in some of his earlier positions, he had a difficult relation with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in 1736. In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750. 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 the genres of 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 major 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 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 for instance the Air on the G String, and of recordings, for instance three different box sets with complete performances of the composer's oeuvre marking the 250th anniversary of his death. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
Air
Air on a G String
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Ave Maria
Air on the G String
Aria
Sheep May Safely Graze
Allegro
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869: 1. Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
Toccata in D minor
Badinerie
Cello Suite Bwv1007: Prelude
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air
Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air
Adagio
Air On a G String (From Overture No3 In D Bwv1068)
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude
Overture (Suite) No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: VII. Badinerie
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air On a G String (Arr. for Piano)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 7 A 1 Ovvero 2 Clav. Al Tempo Di Giga
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068: 2. Air
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria - Remastered
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, Sonatina az Actus tragicus-ból, BWV 106
The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869: I. Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
Siciliano (After Erbarme dich from Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244, No. 39)
Montero: Adagio (After Bach's Violin Concerto No. 2, BWV 1042)
Violin Concerto BWV 1042 in E Major: Violin Concerto BWV 1042 in E Major: I. Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: I. (Allegro Moderato)
Concerto en ré mineur, BWV 974: II. Adagio
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
Concerto n°5 en Ré majeur BWV 1050: II. Affettuoso
Sarabande
Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: 2. Andante [Adagio] (Transcr. by August Stradal)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3 a 1 Clav. Canone All'Unisono
Andante
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: I. [Allegro]
Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067: VII. Badinerie
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1 (Arr. for Harp)
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: III. Courante
Allegro assai
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Arr. For Piano By Myra Hess)
Prelude and Fugue in C (WTK, Book I, No.1), BWV 846

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