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title: Johann Sebastian Bach (painter)

text: Johann Sebastian Bach (painter) Johann Sebastian Bach (26 September 1748 – 11 September 1778) was a German painter. He was the son of composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the grandson of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was born in Berlin. He studied under Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. In May 1773, he moved to Dresden, and in February 1776 he moved to Hamburg, where his father was Director of Music. In September 1776 he embarked on a study trip to Rome, where he became seriously ill soon after his arrival in February 1777, and died of this unknown ailment

title: Johann Sebastian Bach Institute

text: set appeared the following year. However, the Bach Archive Leipzig remains active and has issued revisions of some single volumes. Johann Sebastian Bach Institute The Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (German: Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) was an institute dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach in Göttingen, Germany. It was founded in 1951 as one of two institutes preparing the New Bach Edition, the second complete edition of the composer's works. The partner organisation was the Leipzig Bach Archive in what was then East Germany on the other side of the Iron Curtain from Göttingen. The new edition met rigorous scientific requirements and at the same

title: Johann Sebastian Bach Institute

text: Johann Sebastian Bach Institute The Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (German: Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) was an institute dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach in Göttingen, Germany. It was founded in 1951 as one of two institutes preparing the New Bach Edition, the second complete edition of the composer's works. The partner organisation was the Leipzig Bach Archive in what was then East Germany on the other side of the Iron Curtain from Göttingen. The new edition met rigorous scientific requirements and at the same time served musical practice. The institute ended its activities in 2006 and the final volume of the New Bach Edition

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (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" as well as for 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. After becoming an orphan at age 10,

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara had three more children who however did not live to their first birthday, including twins born in 1713. Bach's time in Weimar was the start of a sustained period of composing keyboard and orchestral works. He attained the proficiency and confidence to extend the prevailing structures and to include influences from abroad. He learned to write dramatic openings and employ the dynamic motor rhythms and harmonic schemes found in the music of Italians such as Vivaldi, Corelli, and Torelli. Bach absorbed these stylistic aspects in part by transcribing Vivaldi's

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: section of the NBA. An enlarged German edition was issued in 1962. In 1960 "Bach: eine Bildbiographie" was published, translated as "Bach and his world" and "Bach: A Pictorial Biography" Under Neumann's direction, from its founding in 1950 until he retired in 1973, the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig published biographical material about Bach, for instance in 1970 the "Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs" (time table to the history of Johann Sebastian Bach's life). This "Kalendarium" was republished in 2008 in an edition revised by Andreas Glöckner. In 1962 Russell Hancock Miles published "Johann Sebastian Bach: an Introduction to His Life

title: Johann Sebastian Bach (painter)

text: in 1778. Bach created mostly brush drawings of idyllic landscapes, bustling with people. His works show the influence of Salomon Gessner. Towards the end of his life he turned to representations of people and created historical and mythological scenes. He also made vignettes and illustrations of works by Gottlieb Rabener and Christian Felix Weiße. In his time he was quite renowned as an artist. Collections of his works are in Coburg, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig and Vienna. Johann Sebastian Bach (painter) Johann Sebastian Bach (26 September 1748 – 11 September 1778) was a German painter. He was the son of composer

title: Johann Nicolaus Bach

text: Johann Nicolaus Bach Johann Nicolaus Bach (or Johann Nikolaus Bach) ( – 4 November 1753) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he later became organist. He was probably born at Eisenach, where his father was employed as a musician, attended the Eisenach Latin school until 1689, and was a student of the Jena city organist J.M. Knüpfer, a son of Sebastian Knüpfer; after an Italian sojourn in 1696, he became organist

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: posts across Germany: he served as (director of music) to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, a position of music director at the main Lutheran churches and educator at the . He received the title of "Royal Court Composer" from Augustus III in 1736. Bach's health and vision declined in 1749, and he died on 28 July 1750. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany, on 21 March 1685 O.S. (31 March 1685 N.S.). He was the son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, the director of the town

title: Johann Ambrosius Bach

text: Johann Ambrosius Bach Johann Ambrosius Bach (22 February 1645 – ) was a German musician, father to Johann Sebastian Bach. The son of Christoph Bach (1613–1661), Ambrosius was born in Erfurt, Germany, as the twin brother of Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693). Ambrosius was employed as a violinist in Erfurt. In 1671, he moved his family to Eisenach, in present-day Thuringia, where he was employed as a court trumpeter and director of the town musicians. He married his first wife Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt on 1 April 1668, and had eight children by her, four of whom became musicians, including Johann Sebastian

title: Johann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf)

text: that town for a short time, followed by some months at Arnstadt where several Bach relatives lived. In 1690 Johann Christoph became organist at the Michaeliskirche at Ohrdruf. In October 1694 he married Dorothea von Hof. His mother Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt had died earlier that year, and his father Johann Ambrosius Bach died in March the next year. Two younger brothers, Johann Jacob and Johann Sebastian, who up till then had been living with their father in Eisenach, came to live with Johann Christoph's family in Ohrdruf. At the time, Johann Jacob was thirteen, and Johann Sebastian not even ten.

title: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach

text: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (May 11, 1715 – May 27, 1739) was a German musician. His career is not in itself notable, but his life throws light on his famous father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Gottfried was the fourth child of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach to reach adulthood. He was born in Weimar, where his father was employed before moving to Kothen. His mother died in Kothen in 1720. In 1723 his father was appointed Thomaskantor in Leipzig. J.S. Bach is believed to have moved to Leipzig partly because of the

title: Johann Michael Bach

text: instruments, including harpsichords. Johann Michael Bach Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach). He is sometimes referred to as the "Gehrener Bach" to distinguish him from the "Wuppertaler Bach", Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820). Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the great uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673, Johann

title: Johann Michael Bach

text: Johann Michael Bach Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach). He is sometimes referred to as the "Gehrener Bach" to distinguish him from the "Wuppertaler Bach", Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820). Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the great uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673, Johann Michael became the

title: Johann Christoph Bach

text: 1738), Johann Friedrich (1682–1730), and Johann Michael (1685–unknown). He is not to be confused with Johann Sebastian Bach's son, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Johann Christoph had a reputation as a composer that was only equalled by that of Johann Sebastian within the Bach family during his lifetime. He was organist at Eisenach and later a member of the court chamber orchestra there. His brother, Johann Michael Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach's father-in-law and Maria Barbara's father), was also a composer. Some of the works were later attributed to Johann Sebastian, but were recently recognized as written by Johann Christoph. One of

title: Johann Ambrosius Bach

text: Bach, the famous German Baroque composer and musician. She was buried on 3 May 1694. On 27 November 1694 he married Barbara Margaretha, née Keul (she had already been twice widowed). He died in Eisenach less than three months later. After Johann Ambrosius Bach's death, his two children, Johann Jacob Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach, moved in with his eldest son, Johann Christoph Bach. Johann Ambrosius Bach Johann Ambrosius Bach (22 February 1645 – ) was a German musician, father to Johann Sebastian Bach. The son of Christoph Bach (1613–1661), Ambrosius was born in Erfurt, Germany, as the twin brother

title: Johann Jacob Bach

text: Johann Jacob Bach Johann Jacob Bach (or Johann Jakob) (baptised – 16 April 1722) was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is thought to have been born in Eisenach. After his studies at the Latin school there, he became oboist in the municipal band. After the death of their father Johann Ambrosius Bach in 1695, Johann Jacob and Johann Sebastian moved in with their older brother Johann Christoph Bach, organist at Ohrdruf. In 1704, he entered the service in the military band of the army of King Charles XII of Sweden. It is

text: followed Johann Christoph copied several compositions by his younger brother. All of Johann Christoph's sons became musicians, three of them at Ohrdruf. He died, aged 49, in Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf) Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who survived childhood. Johann Christoph was born in Erfurt in June 1671, a few months before the family moved to Eisenach, where Johann Sebastian was born fourteen years later as the last child. In 1686 Johann Christoph was

text: Johann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf) Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who survived childhood. Johann Christoph was born in Erfurt in June 1671, a few months before the family moved to Eisenach, where Johann Sebastian was born fourteen years later as the last child. In 1686 Johann Christoph was sent to Erfurt to study under Johann Pachelbel for the next three years. By the end of his apprenticeship he was organist in the St. Thomas church in

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: musicians, and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. He was the eighth and youngest child of Johann Ambrosius, who likely taught him violin and basic music theory. His uncles were all professional musicians, whose posts included church organists, court chamber musicians, and composers. One uncle, Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693), introduced him to the organ, and an older second cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731), was a well-known composer and violinist. Bach's mother died in 1694, and his father died eight months later. The 10-year-old Bach moved in with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721), the organist at St. Michael's Church in Ohrdruf, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

title: Johann Bernhard Bach

text: that of a conductor (Kapellmeister) at Eisenach's ducal orchestra. On the 6th August 1716 Johann Bernhard Bach married Johanna Sophia Siefer. Three children were born into the family. In 1741 the ducal orchestra was dissolved, which meant that Johann Bernhard continued to work exclussively as choirmaster and organist, until his death, apparently still receiving the ducal allowance of 100 Thalers per year. With his famous cousin Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Bernhard kept a life-long friendship. In 1715 he acted as godfather for Johann Sebastian's son Johann Gottfried Bernhard, whilst Johann Sebastian became godfather to Johann Bernhard's eldest son Johann Ernst

title: Johann Ludwig Bach

text: Johann Ludwig Bach Johann Ludwig Bach ( – 1 May 1731) was a composer and violinist. He was born in Thal near Eisenach. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister. He wrote a large amount of music and regularly oversaw performances, both at Meiningen and neighbouring courts. He was a third cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach, who made copies of several of his cantatas and performed them at Leipzig. The cantata "Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Hölle lassen", BWV 15, once thought to be by Johann Sebastian,

title: Johann Christoph Bach

text: Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J. S. Bach's first wife and second cousin. Johann Christoph married Maria Elisabeth Wiedemann in 1667. They had seven children, including four sons who became musicians: Johann Nicolaus (10 October 1669 – 4 November 1753), Johann Christoph Jr. (29 August 1676 –

title: Johann Lorenz Bach

text: Johann Lorenz Bach Johann Lorenz Bach ( – 14 December 1773) was a German organist and composer of the Frankish line of the Bach family. Born in Schweinfurt, Johann Lorenz Bach was musically trained by his father Johann Valentin Bach, and from 1715 to 1717 in Weimar by Johann Sebastian Bach. From 1718 until his death he was choirmaster, organist, and schoolmaster in the "Freiherrlich Lichtensteinische Residenz Lahm im Itzgrund", the court of the "Freiherr" in Itzgrund (near Coburg). The organ in the church of the "residenz" was built in 1732 by Heinrich Herbst, an organ builder from Halberstadt, with

title: Johann Christoph Bach

text: in his Genealogy (1735) as "the profound composer", thus hinting at his reputation, not just within the family, but within society. Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J. S. Bach's first wife and second cousin. Johann Christoph married Maria Elisabeth Wiedemann in 1667. They had seven children, including

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: biography based on an extensive research of primary sources was published by Spitta in the second half of the 19th century. Johann Nikolaus Forkel's "" ("Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work") appeared in Leipzig in 1802. Its biographical material expands what is already in the "Nekrolog" with details Forkel collected from Bach's eldest sons. An English translation, expanded with updates in footnotes and appendices, was published in 1920 by Charles Sanford Terry. A century after the composer's death two short biographies were published. Joh. Carl Schauer published "Joh. Seb. Bach's Lebensbild : Eine Denkschrift auf seinem 100 jährigen

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: with complete performances of the composer's works marking the 250th anniversary of his death. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach, in the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, into a great musical family. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was the director of the town musicians, and all of his uncles were professional musicians. His father probably taught him to play the violin and harpsichord, and his brother Johann Christoph Bach taught him the clavichord and exposed him to much contemporary music. Apparently at his own initiative, Bach attended St. Michael's School in Lüneburg for two years. After graduating he held several musical

title: Christoph Bach (musician)

text: all musicians: Georg Christoph Bach (1642–1697), and the twins Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645–1695), who was Johann Sebastian Bach's father, and Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693). Christoph Bach died in Arnstadt. Christoph Bach (musician) Christoph Bach ( – ) was a German musician of the Baroque period. He was the grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach. According to information provided by Johann Sebastian Bach in his genealogy "Origin of the Musical Bach Family" written in 1735, Christoph Bach was the second son of Johannes Bach. His brothers, Johann Bach and Heinrich Bach, were also composers. He was born in Wechmar, Germany, where he

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: to prepare for careers in other disciplines. While in Lüneburg, Bach had access to St. John's Church and possibly used the church's famous organ from 1553, since it was played by his organ teacher Georg Böhm. Because of his musical talent, Bach had significant contact with Böhm while a student in Lüneburg, and also took trips to nearby Hamburg where he observed "the great North German organist Johann Adam Reincken". Stauffer reports the discovery in 2005 of the organ tablatures that Bach wrote out when still in his teens of works by Reincken and Dieterich Buxtehude, showing "a disciplined, methodical,

title: Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach

text: the last decennia of the Leipzig period, some compositions are grouped by type in subsections. Spitta writes in long paragraphs and very few divisions in subsections. Coming from a Protestant background himself, he is able, like Albert Schweitzer after him, to give insight in the religious context of Bach's time. Spitta's biography went down in history as "... the most ... comprehensive and important single work on Johann Sebastian Bach". For over a hundred years after its publication biographers rarely revisited primary sources, they just took the facts from Spitta's work. Only by the late 20th century criticisms about Spitta's

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: was never performed during the composer's lifetime, it is considered to be among the greatest choral works of all time. In January 1749 Bach's daughter Elisabeth Juliane Friederica married his pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol. Bach's health was however declining. On 2 June, Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the and posts "upon the eventual ... decease of Mr. Bach". Becoming blind, Bach underwent eye surgery, in March 1750, and again in April, from the British eye surgeon John Taylor. Bach died on 28 July 1750, from

title: International Piano Competition “Johann Sebastian Bach” Würzburg / Germany

text: received top prizes in all Bach competitions (Leipzig 2014, Würzburg 2010, and Tureck 2010). International Piano Competition “Johann Sebastian Bach” Würzburg / Germany The International Piano Competition J. S. Bach, Würzburg is a triennial competition that is held in Würzburg, Germany. It was founded in 1992 by Prof. Walter Blankenheim and "after having taken place in Saarbrücken five times, the Bach Competition moved to Würzburg for its sixth edition, 21–31 March 2007". With 771 competitors from 58 countries over the last twenty-four years, it is the largest Bach Piano Competition in the World. The competition is open to pianists of

title: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

text: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 – 26 January 1795) was a harpsichordist and composer, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach". Born in Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony, he was taught music by his father, and also tutored by his distant cousin . He studied at the St. Thomas School, and some believe he studied law at the university there, but there is no record of this. In 1750, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed Johann Christoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759, he became concertmaster. While

title: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

text: of the nascent classical style. Oratorios Liturgical works Sacred works Arias, cantatas and incidental music Songs Works not referenced in any catalogue Notes Sources Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 – 26 January 1795) was a harpsichordist and composer, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach". Born in Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony, he was taught music by his father, and also tutored by his distant cousin . He studied at the St. Thomas School, and some believe he studied law at the university there, but there

title: Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work

text: The biographical description of Bach's last tenure in Leipzig is almost entirely neglected, and no attention is given to the church music Bach wrote in the first two decades of that period. The first edition of Forkel's biography on Johann Sebastian Bach was published by Hoffmeister and Kühnel. An early English translation of Forkel's work, published in 1820, had many deficiencies. A second edition of Forkel's biography was issued by Peters in 1855. By the early 20th century, when Charles Sanford Terry produced his translation of the biography, scholarship on Bach had progressed, so Terry supplemented his translation with extensive

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: presented with a wealth of historical inferences and personal reflections. An abridged English translation of the biography appeared in 1873. Shortly after becoming Prussian minister of finance in 1879, Bitter published an enlarged reworking in four volumes of the biography. Philipp Spitta's "Johann Sebastian Bach" was published in Leipzig in two volumes, in 1873 and 1880 respectively. Its English translation was published by Novello in three volumes. In his introduction Spitta dismisses all previous biographies apart from the "Nekrolog", Forkel, and part of Gerber. He is particularly harsh on Bitter. Spitta's biography went down in history as "... the most

title: Johann Christoph Bach

text: the most famous works is the cantata "", based on the "Song of Solomon". Despite his success as a musician, Johann Christoph experienced financial difficulties, which may have resulted in his not having been selected as the guardian of Johann Sebastian when the latter's parents died. Yet Johann Christoph found the money to have his portrait painted in oil several times, including the well-known portrait of him that is on display in a Berlin museum. Johann Christoph was heavily in debt when he died at Eisenach. He died just ten days after his wife Maria died. Sebastian Bach described him

title: New Bach Edition

text: New Bach Edition The New Bach Edition (NBE), in German Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach: New Edition of the Complete Works (Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke). It is a historical-critical edition (German: "historisch-kritische Ausgabe") of Bach's complete works by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. The first complete edition of Bach's music was published in the second half of

title: Bach House (Eisenach)

text: From 1692 until 1695, Johann Sebastian Bach attended the Latin school at Eisenach and joined its "chorus musicus"; for its members music lessons were included in the school's timetable on four days of the week. On 1 May 1694, Bach's mother Elisabeth Bach died, on 20 February 1695 also Bach's father Ambrosius died. In July 1695, Johann Sebastian and his brother Johann Jacob left Eisenach to live with the family of their older brother Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf. The historical Bach House is one of the oldest residential buildings in Eisenach. It originally consisted of two buildings, of which the

title: Christoph Bach (musician)

text: Christoph Bach (musician) Christoph Bach ( – ) was a German musician of the Baroque period. He was the grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach. According to information provided by Johann Sebastian Bach in his genealogy "Origin of the Musical Bach Family" written in 1735, Christoph Bach was the second son of Johannes Bach. His brothers, Johann Bach and Heinrich Bach, were also composers. He was born in Wechmar, Germany, where he became a court musician. He also held town musician posts in Erfurt and in Arnstadt. Christoph Bach was married to Maria Magdalena Grabler. They had three sons, who were

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: cantata cycle of his second year in Leipzig is called the chorale cantata cycle as it is mainly consisting of works in the chorale cantata format. His third cantata cycle was developed over a period of several years, followed by the Picander cycle of 1728–29. Later church cantatas include the chorale cantatas (final version) and . Only the first three Leipzig cycles are more or less completely extant. Apart from his own work, Bach also performed cantatas by Telemann and by his distant relative Johann Ludwig Bach. Bach also wrote secular cantatas, for instance for members of the Royal-Polish and

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: with Prince Leopold, Bach's wife suddenly died. The following year, he met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young, highly gifted soprano sixteen years his junior, who performed at the court in Köthen; they married on 3 December 1721. Together they had thirteen more children, six of whom survived into adulthood: Gottfried Heinrich; Elisabeth Juliane Friederica (1726–1781); Johann Christoph Friedrich and Johann Christian, who both, especially Johann Christian, became significant musicians; Johanna Carolina (1737–1781); and Regina Susanna (1742–1809). In 1723, Bach was appointed "Thomaskantor", Cantor of the at the (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, which provided music for four churches in the

title: Bach Archive

text: There is engagement with a wider public via the Bach-Museum and via performances of Bach's music, especially the "Bachfest Leipzig" (an international festival) and the "Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb" (an international music competition). Bach Archive The Bach-Archiv Leipzig or Bach-Archiv is an institution for the documentation and research of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach-Archiv also researches the Bach family, especially their music. Based in Leipzig, the city where Bach lived from 1723 until his death, the Archiv is recognised by the German government as a "cultural beacon" of national importance. Since 2008 the Bach-Archiv has been part

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: In the 21st century, the complete extant output of the composer became available on-line, with several websites exclusively dedicated to him. In his own time, Bach's reputation equalled those of Telemann, Graun and Handel. During his life, Bach received public recognition, such as the title of court composer by Augustus III of Poland, and the appreciation he was shown by Frederick the Great and Hermann Karl von Keyserling. Such highly placed appreciation contrasted with the humiliations he had to cope with, for instance in his hometown of Leipzig. Also in the contemporary press, Bach had his detractors, such as Johann

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: well-trained teenager deeply committed to learning his craft". In January 1703, shortly after graduating from St. Michael's and being turned down for the post of organist at Sangerhausen, Bach was appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III in Weimar. His role there is unclear, but it probably included menial, non-musical duties. During his seven-month tenure at Weimar, his reputation as a keyboardist spread so much that he was invited to inspect the new organ and give the inaugural recital, at the New Church (now Bach Church) in Arnstadt, located about southwest of Weimar. In August 1703,

title: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

text: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer. Despite his acknowledged genius as an organist, improviser and composer, his income and employment were unstable and he died in poverty. Wilhelm Friedemann (hereafter Friedemann) was born in Weimar, where his father was employed as organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar. In July 1720, when Friedemann was nine, his mother Maria Barbara Bach died suddenly; Johann Sebastian Bach remarried in December 1721. J. S.

title: Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach

text: cantata written for such celebrations were indicated with the term "Ratswechsel" (changing of the council) or "Ratswahl" (election of the council). In Leipzig the service was held at the Nikolaikirche on the Monday following Bartholomew (Bartholomäus), 24 August. Bach's Leipzig Ratswahl cantatas include: 25 June 1730 was 200 years after the Augsburg Confession. In Leipzig the occasion was remembered by a three-day festival. Picander wrote three cantata librettos (later published in "Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte", Vol. III, 1732), one for each day of the celebration. Johann Sebastian Bach set these librettos. The music of these settings is however largely lost:

title: New Bach Edition

text: NBE). Approximately 15 more volumes are planned, including Weimar cantatas (five works), the "St John Passion", the motets, the violin sonatas, the cello suites and others. In 2001 the German Association of Music Publishers ("Deutscher Musikverlegerverband") awarded a special prize to the New Bach Edition in recognition of editorial achievement. New Bach Edition The New Bach Edition (NBE), in German Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach: New Edition of the Complete Works (Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke). It

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Bach's "complete embrace of dance music, perhaps the most important influence on his mature style other than his adoption of Vivaldi's music in Weimar." Despite being born in the same year and only about apart, Bach and Handel never met. In 1719, Bach made the journey from Köthen to Halle with the intention of meeting Handel; however, Handel had left the town. In 1730, Bach's oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann travelled to Halle to invite Handel to visit the Bach family in Leipzig, but the visit did not come to pass. On 7 July 1720, while Bach was away in Carlsbad

title: Georg Christoph Bach

text: leben". Recordings Georg Christoph Bach Georg Christoph Bach (6 September 1642 – 27 April 1697) was a German composer. He was the son of Christoph Bach and the elder brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach. Georg Christoph Bach was born in Erfurt, Germany, in 1642. He was trained in music in Arnstadt and attended the Casimirianum in Coburg and later Leipzig University. In 1668, he became cantor and organist in Themar, and from 1688 until his death he was the cantor at St. Johannis in Schweinfurt, where his uncles Johann and Heinrich Bach had been organists. His

title: Georg Christoph Bach

text: Georg Christoph Bach Georg Christoph Bach (6 September 1642 – 27 April 1697) was a German composer. He was the son of Christoph Bach and the elder brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach. Georg Christoph Bach was born in Erfurt, Germany, in 1642. He was trained in music in Arnstadt and attended the Casimirianum in Coburg and later Leipzig University. In 1668, he became cantor and organist in Themar, and from 1688 until his death he was the cantor at St. Johannis in Schweinfurt, where his uncles Johann and Heinrich Bach had been organists. His most well

title: Bach family

text: been alive in 1561, a village between Gotha and Arnstadt in Thuringia, who is believed to be the father of Veit Bach. Johann Ambrosius' uncle, Heinrich of Arnstadt, had two sons: Johann Michael and Johann Christoph, who are among the greatest of J. S. Bach's forerunners, Johann Christoph being once supposed to be the author of the motet, " (I will not leave you), formerly ascribed to Sebastian Bach and now confirmed to be his (BWV 159a). Another descendant of Veit Bach, Johann Ludwig, was admired more than any other ancestor by Sebastian, who copied twelve of his church cantatas

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Carl Gottlieb Hirsching's "Historisch-literarisches Handbuch". The descriptions in such biographical articles were nearly exclusively based on the "Nekrolog", often copied with errors. Occasionally Bach appears in other writings, like 's 1776 manuscript on the history of schools in Leipzig, which gives a short account of Bach falling out with Johann August Ernesti, conrector of the St. Thomas School. In print Bach is mentioned as teacher of some musicians of the next generation, for instance Christoph Nichelmann. Forkel's biography was published shortly after the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, and concentrated mostly on an analysis of his compositions. The first

title: Organ concerto (Bach)

text: that of Lutheran church music; secondly, the tuning of the baroque pipe organ would jar with that of a full orchestra, particularly when playing chords; and lastly, the size of the organ loft limited that of the orchestra. Wolff, however, notes that Bach's congregation did not object to his use of the organ obliggato in the sinfonia movements in the aforementioned cantatas. Organ concerto (Bach) Johann Sebastian Bach's output include two types of organ concertos: The six works catalogued as BWV 592–596 are arrangements which were realised by Johann Sebastian Bach as part of his Weimar concerto transcriptions. The organ

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Church remembers Bach and Handel with Heinrich Schütz. Scores Recordings Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (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" as well as for 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

title: Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach

text: accuracy and interpretation were raised. Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach is a 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach by Philipp Spitta. The work was published in German in two volumes, in 1873 and 1880 respectively. The English translation by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland, "Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750", was published by Novello & Co in three volumes. Spitta's Bach biography gives a chronological account. This includes the discussion of Bach's compositions: these are discussed within the chronological account at the time they were composed. Only for the

title: Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach is a 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach by Philipp Spitta. The work was published in German in two volumes, in 1873 and 1880 respectively. The English translation by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland, "Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750", was published by Novello & Co in three volumes. Spitta's Bach biography gives a chronological account. This includes the discussion of Bach's compositions: these are discussed within the chronological account at the time they were composed. Only for the sixth and last part, covering

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: editor of the "Cambridge Companion to Bach", with chapters written by Malcolm Boyd, Ulrich Siegele, Robin A. Leaver, Stephen A. Crist, Werner Breig, Richard D. P. Jones, Laurence Dreyfus, Stephen Daw, George B. Stauffer and Martin Zenck. Klaus Eidam's 1999 "Das Wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach" ("The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach") tries to correct some misconceptions that crept in the biographical writing on the composer, based on a new perusal of primary sources. Christoph Wolff, a Bach scholar, wrote his major biographical work on Bach, "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician", in 2000. In 1998 Wolff had

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach The first major biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach, including those by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Philipp Spitta, were published in the 19th century. Many more were published in the 20th century by, among others, Albert Schweitzer, Charles Sanford Terry, Christoph Wolff and Klaus Eidam. Little was published about Bach's life in the 18th century, his "Nekrolog" (obituary) being the most extended biographical note about the composer's life. No writings by Johann Sebastian Bach were published during his lifetime. He declined Johann Mattheson's invitation to write an autobiographical sketch for inclusion in the "Ehrenpforte". There is

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: part of the large collection of his father's works he owned. Several students of the old master, such as his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Kirnberger, and Johann Ludwig Krebs, contributed to the dissemination of his legacy. The early devotees were not all musicians; for example, in Berlin, Daniel Itzig, a high official of Frederick the Great's court, venerated Bach. His eldest daughters took lessons from Kirnberger; their sister Sara from Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, who was in Berlin from 1774 to 1784. Sara Itzig Levy became an avid collector of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: and Works". In 1966 Karl and Irene Geiringer published "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of An Era". Walter Blankenburg published an essay collection, with contributions by scholars such as Dürr and David, in 1970. In 1976 Barbara Schwendowius and Wolfgang Dömling published a collection of eleven essays by, among others, Wolff and Dürr under the title "Johann Sebastian Bach : Zeit, Leben, Wirken". The next year the book was translated as "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times, Influence". Around 1980 Alberto Basso published the two volumes of his Italian Bach-biography "Frau Musika". The biography largely follows Spitta's model, with updates to

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Todestag, den 28. Jul. 1850, aus Thüringen, seinem Vaterlande", and Carl L. Hilgenfeldt published "Johann Sebastian Bach's Leben, Wirken und Werke: ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts" (Johann Sebastian Bach's life, influence and works: a contribution to the art history of the 18th century) "als Programm zu dem am 28. Julius 1850 eintretenden Säculartage des Todes von Johann Sebastian Bach" (as a program for the centennial days of Johann Sebastian Bach's death, starting 28 July 1850). In 1865 Karl Hermann Bitter published a two-volume Bach biography. The biography contains some documents from Bach's time that hadn't been published before,

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: revised David and Mendel's "Bach Reader" into "The New Bach Reader". In 1999 a compilation of Bach-related essays Wolff wrote between 1963 and 1988 had its fourth reprint. Also in 2000 Martin Geck published "Bach: Leben und Werk", six years later translated as "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work". A previous shorter work by Geck, with a focus on illustrative material, was translated as "Bach" in 2000. Maarten 't Hart's biography, focussing on Bach's cantatas, appeared in Dutch and German in 2000. In the 21st century a sizeable portion of biographical material on Johann Sebastian Bach became available on-line, including

text: Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and later translated by, among others, Charles Sanford Terry. When Forkel published his "Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Für patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst" in 1802 it was the first biography on the composer published as a separate book. Forkel dedicated the work to Gottfried van Swieten. Van Swieten was an early Bach adept, for instance making Mozart familiar with the baroque composer. The best

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: a number of biographical works. and Arthur Mendel published "The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents" in 1945. It was revised as "The New Bach Reader" by Christoph Wolff in 1998. Swiss musicologist Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez (1888–1964) derives the biographical material for his 1946 Bach biography essentially from the "Nekrolog", and the biographies by Forkel, Spitta and Terry. Werner Neumann, from 1951 director of the East-German section of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA), published several biographies of the composer. In 1953 "Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs", acclaimed by Alfred Dürr, the director of the West-German

title: Johann Christian Bach

text: Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After a spell in Italy, Bach moved to London in 1762, where he became known as "the London Bach". He is also sometimes known as "the English Bach", and during his time spent living in the British capital, he came to be known as John Bach. He is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart. Johann Christian Bach was born to Johann Sebastian and

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: as the Bach Aria Group, the Deutsche Bachsolisten, the Bachchor Stuttgart, and the Bach Collegium Japan adopted the composer's name. Bach festivals were held in several continents, and competitions and prizes such as the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition and the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize were named after the composer. While by the end of the 19th century, Bach had been inscribed in nationalism and religious revival, the late 20th century saw Bach as the subject of a secularised art-as-religion (). In the 21st century, Bach's compositions became available on-line, for instance at the International Music Score Library

text: footnotes, clarifications and appendices, and even expanded the text of some of the chapters. In the second quarter of the 20th century new German editions with updated clarifications were produced. A new English translation was included in the "New Bach Reader". Forkel's biography was instrumental in making Bach known to a broad public. Many inaccuracies were pointed out in Forkel's biography, but nonetheless later biographers relied on it. Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel,

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: composer's works. Also in the second half of the 19th century, Philipp Spitta published "Johann Sebastian Bach", the standard work on Bach's life and music. By that time, Bach was known as the first of the three Bs in music. Throughout the 19th century, 200 books were published on Bach. By the end of the century, local Bach societies were established in several cities, and his music had been performed in all major musical centres. In Germany all throughout the century, Bach was coupled to nationalist feelings, and the composer was inscribed in a religious revival. In England, Bach was

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: proposes a more condensed survey of the topic. Parry shows Bach chauvinism by designating everything what was composed in the 17th century as immature. In 1925 Esther Meynell published "The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach", fictitiously telling the story of Bach's life through the eyes of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. "The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach", a 1968 film featuring Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian Bach, took the same perspective. Charles Sanford Terry's Bach biography of 1928 focusses on the places where Bach lived. It is the first biography that contains biographical documents not yet included in Spitta's.

text: fifth cycle of cantatas composed by Bach in the last twenty years of his life remains a matter of speculation: evidence of such cycle is remote and circumstantial, but it is a returning topic in scholarly literature. Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach refers to sacred cantatas he composed after his fourth cycle of 1728–29. Whether Bach still composed a full cantata cycle in the last 20 years of his life is not known, but the extant cantatas of this period written for occasions of the liturgical year are sometimes referred to

text: Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach refers to sacred cantatas he composed after his fourth cycle of 1728–29. Whether Bach still composed a full cantata cycle in the last 20 years of his life is not known, but the extant cantatas of this period written for occasions of the liturgical year are sometimes referred to as his fifth cycle, as, according to his obituary, he would have written five such cycles – inasmuch as such cantatas were not late additions to earlier cycles (e.g. chorale cantatas added to the chorale cantata cycle),

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: B minor, and was influenced by Bach's music. Mozart owned a copy of one of Bach's motets, transcribed some of his instrumental works (K. 404a, 405), and wrote contrapuntal music influenced by his style. Beethoven played the entire "Well-Tempered Clavier" by the time he was eleven, and described Bach as (progenitor of harmony). In 1802, Johann Nikolaus Forkel published "Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke", the first biography of the composer, which contributed to the composer becoming known to a wider public. In 1805, Abraham Mendelssohn, who had married one of Itzig's granddaughters, bought a substantial collection of

title: Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach

text: Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach The harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052–1065, are concertos for harpsichord, strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord (BWV 1052–1058), three concertos for two harpsichords (BWV 1060–1062), two concertos for three harpsichords (BWV 1063 and 1064), and one concerto for four harpsichords (BWV 1065). Two other concertos include solo harpsichord parts: the concerto BWV 1044, which has solo parts for harpsichord, violin and flute, and "Brandenburg Concerto" No. 5 in D major, with the same scoring. In addition, there is a nine-bar concerto fragment for harpsichord (BWV

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: ... comprehensive and important single work on Johann Sebastian Bach". It eclipsed the previous biographies and laid down premises and methodology for future Bach scholarship. In the United Kingdom the 19th-century Bach Revival was inscribed in existing traditions respecting baroque music. The Bach-biographies that were published in English were throughout the century largely based on German examples. An amateurish translation of Forkel had appeared in London in 1820. Edward Francis Rimbault had published his Hilgenfeldt/Forkel adaptation in 1869. An abridged version of Bitter's first edition had appeared in 1873. In 1882 the first original English biography appeared, Reginald Lane Poole's

title: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach

text: as organist at the Jakobikirche in Sangerhausen. In 1738, he was burdened with debt and abandoned a career in music in order to study law in Jena. There he died prematurely at aged 24. It is unknown if, like his brothers, Gottfried Bernhard was a composer. Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (May 11, 1715 – May 27, 1739) was a German musician. His career is not in itself notable, but his life throws light on his famous father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Gottfried was the fourth child of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: new significant biographies of the composer. Albert Schweitzer's "Johann Sebastian Bach, le musicien-poète" appeared in 1905. It analyses Bach's works primarily from a religious perspective. Its 1908 German edition was enlarged, and more content was added to the 1911 English version. In 1906 André Pirro published a Bach-biography in France. The biography became available in English in 1957, based on the 1949 enlarged French edition. In 1909 a new English-language biography of Bach appeared, written by Hubert Parry. In its preface the author pays his homage to Spitta and excuses him for his specialised technicalities: for his new biography Parry

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: full scans of older biographies that were no longer copyrighted. New biographies were written by Williams and Gardiner. In 2004 a new English biography of Bach, written by Peter Williams, was published by the Cambridge University Press. In 2007 Williams published "J. S. Bach: A Life in Music". John Eliot Gardiner's "Music in the castle of heaven" was published in 2013. Apart from the biographies that take the reader from Bach's birth in 1685 to his death in 1750, several studies highlight specific aspects of the composer's life. Johann Sebastian Bach's life was the subject of several films. Biographies of

title: Johann Jacob Bach

text: thought that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his "Capriccio on the departure of his Beloved Brother" BWV 992 on this occasion. In 1709, he participated in the Battle of Poltava. During his stay in Constantinople, he studied flute under Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin. From 1713 to 1722, he served as flutist in the court of the Stockholm "capelle". He died childless in 1722 in Stockholm and is buried there. Johann Jacob played oboe, flute and possibly violin. He probably composed the "Sonata in C minor" under the pseudonym "Signor Bach". Johann Jacob Bach Johann Jacob Bach (or Johann Jakob) (baptised – 16 April

title: Johann Christian Bach

text: three sonatas from Bach's Op. 5 into keyboard concertos, and in later life Mozart "often acknowledged the artistic debt he owed" to Johann Christian. The works of JC Bach are given 'W' numbers, from Ernest Warburton's Thematic catalog of his works (New York City: Garland Publishing, 1999). Bach's compositions include eleven operas, as well as chamber music, orchestral music and compositions for keyboard music. Notes Sources Information Music Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of

title: Sebastian Bach Mills

text: Sebastian Bach Mills Sebastian Bach Mills (13 March 1839 – 21 December 1898) was a noted English pianist, composer and piano instructor who made his concert career in the United States and gave the first American performances of many important works. Born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Mills received his earliest instruction from his father, who was organist at Gloucester Cathedral. The father was a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, hence the name he gave his firstborn son. In adulthood, Mills simply signed himself "S.B. Mills." In spite of the name and his father's vocation, Mills chose piano over the organ.

text: International Piano Competition “Johann Sebastian Bach” Würzburg / Germany The International Piano Competition J. S. Bach, Würzburg is a triennial competition that is held in Würzburg, Germany. It was founded in 1992 by Prof. Walter Blankenheim and "after having taken place in Saarbrücken five times, the Bach Competition moved to Würzburg for its sixth edition, 21–31 March 2007". With 771 competitors from 58 countries over the last twenty-four years, it is the largest Bach Piano Competition in the World. The competition is open to pianists of all nationalities who are not older than 36 at the time of the competition.

title: Friedemann Bach (film)

text: dies. In fact, it was Johann Sebastian Bach and not Wilhelm Friedemann who competed against Louis Marchand. Furthermore, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach did not die as young as shown in the film. Friedemann Bach (film) Friedemann Bach is a 1941 German historical drama film directed by Traugott Müller and starring Gustaf Gründgens, Leny Marenbach and Johannes Riemann. The film depicts the life of Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It is based on Albert Emil Brachvogel's novel "Friedemann Bach". Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is shown as a gifted son trying to escape his father's shadow. During a house concert, the Bach

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: There he studied, performed, and copied music, including his own brother's, despite being forbidden to do so because scores were so valuable and private, and blank ledger paper of that type was costly. He received valuable teaching from his brother, who instructed him on the clavichord. J.C. Bach exposed him to the works of great composers of the day, including South German composers such as Johann Pachelbel (under whom Johann Christoph had studied) and Johann Jakob Froberger; North German composers; Frenchmen, such as Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis Marchand, and Marin Marais; and the Italian clavierist Girolamo Frescobaldi. Also during this time,

title: BACH motif

text: composers continue writing works using the motif, frequently in homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. In a comprehensive study published in the catalogue for the 1985 exhibition "300 Jahre Johann Sebastian Bach" ("300 years of Johann Sebastian Bach") in Stuttgart, Germany, Ulrich Prinz lists 409 works by 330 composers from the 17th to the 20th century using the BACH motif (). A similar list is available in Malcolm Boyd's volume on Bach; it also contains some 400 works. A few works that feature the motif prominently are: BACH motif In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes

title: Johann Sebastian Paetsch

text: intensity and depth of understanding to this complex work... the second movement was exquisitely eerie. His multiple-stop work stood out both for its lyrical beauty and technical excellence." Paetsch is also a noted champion of works transcribed for solo cello. In 2013 Paetsch transcribed Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178, for solo cello. In 2015, he transcribed "3 Pieces from BWV 565, 903, and 1004" by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo cello. This include the Toccata and Fugue BWV 565, the Chromatic Fantasia BWV 903 and the Chaconne from Partita No. 2 BWV 1004. Johann Sebastian Paetsch pages

title: Johann Pachelbel

text: death date. He is buried in the St. Rochus Cemetery. One of the last middle Baroque composers, Pachelbel did not have any considerable influence on most of the famous late Baroque composers, such as George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti or Georg Philipp Telemann. However, he did influence Johann Sebastian Bach indirectly; the young Johann Sebastian was tutored by his older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who studied with Pachelbel, but although J.S. Bach's early chorales and chorale variations borrow from Pachelbel's music, the style of northern German composers, such as Georg Böhm, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Adam Reincken, played a more

text: willt, so schicks mit mir", BWV 73, the cantata for the third Sunday after Epiphany of the first cycle, was restaged at least two times between 1731 and 1750. "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit", BWV 14, first performed on the fourth Sunday after Epiphany , latest of Bach's extant chorale cantatas, was added to the chorale cantata cycle. There are no extant cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach for the fifth and sixth Sunday after Epiphany. The first version of "Ich habe genug", BWV 82, had been performed on the Feast of Purification . This version for soprano, flute,

title: Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

text: "Sebastian Bach". Lane Poole bases the biographical data entirely on Spitta, and adds a chronological list of 200 church cantatas by Bach. By the mid-1880s the translation of Spitta's volumes was complete. New biographies were written by Schweitzer and Terry in the first half of the 20th century. Only by the end of the century, quarter of a millennium after the composer's death, new major biographies appeared by Eidam and Wolff. By the end of the 19th century the Bach Gesellschaft had completed its task of publishing all known works by Bach. The first decade of the new century brought

title: Anna Magdalena Bach

text: Johann Sebastian Bach had been working there as "Kapellmeister", or director of music, since December 1717. It is possible that Johann Sebastian Bach first heard her sing at Weißenfels, where he is known to have performed as early as 1713 when his Hunting Cantata was premiered there. Bach married Anna on December 3, 1721, 17 months after the death of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. Later that month the Bachs' employer Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen married Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg. The Princess had little interest in music and because of this and unrelated budgetary constraints, musical life at Köthen

title: Sebastian Bach

text: Sebastian Bach Sebastian Philip Bierk (born April 3, 1968), known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. He continues a solo career, acted on Broadway, and has made appearances in film and television. The members of Kid Wikkid were based in Peterborough, Ontario. Upon hearing of the band and unaware of their ages, 14-year-old Bach auditioned for the group, and was hired by guitar player and band leader Jason Delorme. Kid Wikkid moved back to Toronto, and Bach's dad eventually allowed Bach to move

title: Bach family

text: and sometimes added work of his own to them. Bach family The Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735, his 50th year, and completed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. The Bach family never left Thuringia until the sons of Sebastian went into a more modern world. Through all the misery of the peasantry at the period of the Thirty Years'

title: Bach family

text: Bach family The Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735, his 50th year, and completed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. The Bach family never left Thuringia until the sons of Sebastian went into a more modern world. Through all the misery of the peasantry at the period of the Thirty Years' War this clan maintained its position and produced musicians

title: Maria Barbara Bach

text: on 7 July. The cause of her death is undocumented. Maria Barbara bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy: Anna Magdalena Wilcke became Johann's second wife 17 months after Maria Barbara's death and raised her stepchildren along with her own children with Johann Sebastian Bach. Maria Barbara Bach Maria Barbara Bach ( – buried 7 July 1720) was the first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was also the daughter of his father's cousin Johann Michael Bach. Maria Barbara Bach was born at Gehren, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, to Catherina (d. 1704) and Michael Bach (1648-1694). Her father was organist

title: Johann Lorenz Bach

text: 29 stops, two manuals and pedal. Bach played there for more than forty years. It is largely in the same condition. Bach died in Itzgrund. Except for a Prelude and Fugue in D major, works by Johann Lorenz Bach are lost. A copy of the Prelude exists in the Lahm parish archive in Itzgrund. Johann Lorenz Bach Johann Lorenz Bach ( – 14 December 1773) was a German organist and composer of the Frankish line of the Bach family. Born in Schweinfurt, Johann Lorenz Bach was musically trained by his father Johann Valentin Bach, and from 1715 to 1717 in

title: Sebastian Bach

text: operation was needed, "because [he] literally screamed [his] guts out." Sebastian Bach Sebastian Philip Bierk (born April 3, 1968), known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. He continues a solo career, acted on Broadway, and has made appearances in film and television. The members of Kid Wikkid were based in Peterborough, Ontario. Upon hearing of the band and unaware of their ages, 14-year-old Bach auditioned for the group, and was hired by guitar player and band leader Jason Delorme. Kid Wikkid moved back

title: BACH motif

text: BACH motif In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, "B flat, A, C, B natural". In German musical nomenclature, in which the note "B natural" is named "H" and the "B flat" named "B", it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name. One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram, the motif has been used by countless composers, especially after the Bach Revival in the first half of the 19th century. Johann Gottfried Walther's "Musicalisches Lexikon" (1732) contains the only biographical sketch of Johann Sebastian Bach published

title: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: a very early work, showed a gusto for modulation incomparable to any contemporary work this composition has been compared to, but the full expansion came with the "Well-Tempered Clavier", using all keys, which Bach seems to have been developing from around 1720, with the "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach" as one of its earliest witnesses. The second page of the "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach" is an ornament notation and performance guide that Bach wrote for his eldest son, who was nine years old at the time. Bach was generally quite specific on ornamentation in his compositions (where in his

title: Veit Bach

text: Roman Catholic Habsburgs, Bach, being a Protestant, settled in Wechmar, a village in the German state of Thuringia. His descendants continued to live there until Christoph Bach, grandfather of J. S. Bach, moved to Erfurt to take up a position as municipal musician or "Stadtpfeifer" (town piper). Bach's son Johannes Bach studied music with the town's head piper. Veit Bach Vitus "Veit" Bach (around 1550 – 8 March 1619, Wechmar) was a baker and miller who, according to Johann Sebastian Bach, founded the Bach family, which became one of the most important families in Western musical history. Veit's son, (ca.

title: Johann Nicolaus Bach

text: at the Stadtkirche and the Kollegiatkirche in Jena. He was influenced by Antonio Lotti. He later joined the Danish army. He then returned to Jena where he lived for the rest of his life. Few of his compositions survive. He was also a maker of harpsichords and organs. Surviving pieces include a mass, two chorale preludes on "" and a Singspiel "Der jenaische Wein- und Bierrufer", this in the form of a quodlibet on Jena student traditions. Johann Nicolaus Bach Johann Nicolaus Bach (or Johann Nikolaus Bach) ( – 4 November 1753) was a German composer of the Baroque period.