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	Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bach's representation of the essence and message of Christianity in his religious music is considered by many to be so powerful and beautiful that in Germany he is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Evangelist.
		Bach was best known during his lifetime as an organist, organ consultant, and composer of organ works both in the traditional German free genres such as preludes, fantasias, and toccatas, and stricter forms such as chorale preludes and fugues.
		Bach's other large work, the Mass in B minor, was assembled by Bach near the end of his life, mostly from pieces composed earlier (such as Cantata 191 and Cantata 12).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach (4493 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography
		Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st l685, the son of Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia.
		Bach did not attempt to justify himself before what must have seemed to him a group of narrow minded and conservative old gentlemen; yet the Council, knowing how skilled his playing was, decided to treat their young and impetuous organist with leniency.
		Bach then became a member of the Mitzler society, a learned society devoted to the promotion of musical science, whose members were expected on joining to display some token of their learning.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxjsbach.html (8769 words)

	HOASM: Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, had held the post of a court trumpeter in Eisenach along with that of head of the town piper band, and according to his household rules, the young Johann Sebastian was trained not only as a clavier player, but on several instruments.
		Bach's first, though only brief, professional engagement was as a court violinist in the private band of Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, from March to July 1703.
		Bach was at the peak of his mastery, and it is therefore not to be wondered at that Johann Mattheson, in the earliest reference in print to Bach, commented: 'I have seen things by the famous organist of Weimar, Herr Joh.
	www.hoasm.org /IX/IXBach.html (2726 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bach’s compositions are catalogued by means of the prefix BWV (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) and a numbering system which is generally accepted for convenience of reference.
		Bach wrote or arranged his harpsichord concertos principally for the use of himself and his sons with the "Leipzig University Collegium musicum" between 1735 and 1740.
		Bach wrote a great deal of choral music, particularly in connection with his employment at Leipzig, where he prepared complete cycles of cantatas for use throughout the church year, in addition to the larger scale settings of the Latin Mass and the Passions from the gospels of St. Matthew and of St. John.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/bach.html (823 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach
		Bach was appointed organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1708, and in the next nine years he became known as a leading organist and composed many of his finest works for the instrument.
		Bach remained as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for the rest of his life, often in conflict with the authorities, but a happy family man and a proud and caring parent.
		Bach's eyesight began to deteriorate during his last year and in March and April 1750 he was twice operated on by the itinerant English oculist John Taylor.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/bachjs.html (1019 words)

	J.S. Bach
		Bach is one of the most incredible composers in the last 500 hundred years.
		Acoording to an eyewitness account, Bach was a modern conductor since he alone was in charge, though in his day it was customary for two people to share the responsibility - the one at the harpsichord being in charge of time and rhythm and the violinist in charge of nuances.
		Bach and virtually all musicians after him used the well-tempered alternative, which meant none of the keys was perfect, but they were all tolerable.
	home.uchicago.edu /~nat222/viktor/bach.html (1150 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685.
		Bach's mother died when he was still a young boy and his father suddenly passed away when J. Bach was 9, at which time J. Bach moved in with his older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who was the organist of Ohrdruf in Germany.
		Johann Sebastian Bach's contributions to music, or to borrow a term popularized by his student Lorenz Christoph Mizler, "musical science" are frequently compared to the "original geniuses" of William Shakespeare in English literature and Isaac Newton in physics.
	www.wikiverse.org /johann-sebastian-bach (1940 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: J.S. Bach Biography
		Most of Bach's working life was spent as a Kapellmeister of various important churches, where he was responsible for the music performed at weekly Sunday services, in addition to such onerous activities as teaching Latin (which he regularly complained about).
		In his own life Bach was known more as a virtuoso organist and improviser and he was considered learned but eccentrically old fashioned as a composer what with his obsessions with arcania such as fugue and ricercar.
		Bach's materials are often made from the most basic stuff of music-scales and arpeggios-and this perhaps partly explains the health and solidity of his music.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/bach_bio.html (991 words)

	Bach Biography at Piano Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bach was during his lifetime famous as an organist virtuoso.
		His published works today fill many volumes, but in his lifetime fewer than a dozen of his compsitions were printed, and for half a century after his death this position was only slightly improved until in 1801 the Well-Tempered Klavier was issued.
		The revival of interest in Bach's music may be dated from the Berlin performance of the St Matthew Passion on 11 Mars 1829, conducted by Mendelssohn.
	www.pianosociety.com /index.php?id=10 (286 words)

	Biography of J.S. Bach
		Bach began his auspicious career in music at the age of fifteen as an organ mechanic and tuner, moving from town to town.
		As noted Bach had no ability to support himself through publishing, (as opposed to his comtemporary Georg Handel, considered a superstar) Bach resorted to a variety of commercial enterprises to support his large family.
		From a purely technical prospective, Bach is considered to be the master of the fugue.
	users.tellurian.net /tom/jsbach (429 words)

	J.S. Bach
		Bach always fulfilled his responsibilities as organist/Court musician very well, however, he was very determined in doing whatever he wished.
		Bach's music is generally contrapuntal, in other words, in polyphonic texture: combination of two or more melodic lines sustained concurrently in different parts.
		Bach was such a diligent composer that he never narrowly restricted himself to German music.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/9981/bach.html (1040 words)

	J.S.Bach biography - 8notes.com
		Bach's mother died when he was still a young boy and his father suddenly died when J. Bach was nine, at which time Bach moved in with his older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who was the organist of Ohrdruf in Germany.
		Shortly after graduation (Bach completed Latin school when he was 18, an impressive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish school), Bach took a post as organist at Arnstadt in 1703.
		Bach (1908), by the versatile scholar and organist Albert Schweitzer.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/bach.asp (3032 words)

	Ft June/July 2000: J.S. Bach in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bach has worked as a missionary among all of us." During a recent journey to Japan I discovered that 250 years after his death Bach is now playing a key role in evangelizing that country, one of the most secularized nations in the developed world.
		He is the driving force behind the "Bach boom" sweeping Japan during its current period of spiritual impoverishment.
		This explains the amazing success of Bach’s collected works, which were published by Sogakukan, a Tokyo company, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0006/opinion/siemon-netto.html (1736 words)

	O'Connor Piano, MIDI Keyboard and Organ Studio
		He was the ninth son of J S Bach, also a composer and was born in Leipzig, Germany.
		Bach was one of the finest organists and ablest contrapuntists of his time and the noblest writer of fugues who ever lived.
		Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor (listen to it in the Listening Center) was featured in the Walt Disney movie Fantasia and the new Fantasia 2000.
	www.oconnormusic.org /composers-b.htm (7962 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach Details, Meaning Johann Sebastian Bach Article and Explanation Guide
		Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685–July 28, 1750) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
		Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685 and died in 1750 at the age of 65.
		This hands-on experience with the innards of the instrument would provide a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill at playing the instrument; J. Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and performers.
	www.e-paranoids.com /j/jo/johann_sebastian_bach.html (1905 words)

	Composer Biography - Bach, J.S.
		When, in 1717, Bach was appointed Kapellmeister at Köthen he was at first refused permission to leave Weimar and was allowed to do so only after being held prisoner by the duke for almost a month.
		Many of his contemporaries, notably the critic J. Scheibe, found his music too involved and lacking in immediate melodic appeal, but his chorale harmonizations and fugal works were soon adopted as models for new generations of musicians.
		Together with his great contemporary Handel (whom chance prevented his ever meeting), Bach was the last great representative of the Baroque era in an age which was already rejecting the Baroque aesthetic in favour of a new, 'enlightened' one.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/composer.asp?nodeid=24&callid=250&strch (1263 words)

	Bach, Johann Christian: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		J. became organist at the Milan Cathedral in 1760 where he became known as the "Milan" Bach.
		It was while he was music master to the Queen that Johann Christian met and instructed the young Mozart in 1764.
		J. Bach's works include symphonies, concertos, chamber works, piano pieces, church works, and thirteen operas.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/jcbach.html (92 words)

	J.S. Bach Guitar Sheetmusic and Books
		J.S. Bach's 20 short keyboard teaching pieces have been required standard piano literature for centuries.
		J. Bach is the most sought after composers of all time.
		Bach's impressive sequence of variations, known to us as the "Goldberg Variations," was written for a keyboard instrument about 1741 as the 4th part of "Clavier Übung." Allegedly, it was intended to be performed by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg.
	www.sologuitarist.net /bach_music.html (1852 words)

	•• Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach - PianoParadise••
		Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750) was a German organist, composer, and musical scholar of the Baroque period, and is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
		Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara, had seven children together, although several of them died while still very young.
		At Leipzig, Bach seems to have fit in amongst the professoriate of the university there, with many professors standing as god-parents for his children, and some of the university's men of letters and theology providing many of the librettos for his cantatas.
	www.pianoparadise.com /bach.html (1762 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.S. Bach
		Bach is considered by many to have been the greatest composer in the history of western music.
		Bach's main achievement lies in his synthesis and advanced development of the primary contrapuntal idiom of the late Baroque, and in the basic tunefullness of his thematic material.
		Bach is also known for the numerical symbolism and mathematical exactitude which many people have found in his music – for this, he is often regarded as one of the pinnacle geniuses of western civilization, even by those who are not normally involved with music.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/bachjs.html (3086 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: J.S. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The pairing on this disc is wonderful: Bach's greatest harpsichord concerto and one of his son's own works in the same key--a clear tribute to his father's masterpiece.
		Harpsichord was one of Bach's favorites, and the influence he gave to this unique sounding instrument continues to flourish.
		These are the second recordings which Gustav Leonhardt made of these two d minor concertos by J.S. Bach and his second son, C.P.E. The first were made in the early 1960s with Collegium Aureum and issued separately, coupled with other works (at modern pitch).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029Y6?v=glance (1349 words)

	J.s.bach - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		J.S. Bach for Electric Bass : Three Duets and Five Solo Pieces Arranged for Bass Guitar
		The Cantatas Of J. Bach: With Their Librettos In German-English Parallel Text
		Dance and the Music of J. Bach: Expanded Edition
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /j.s.bach.htm (86 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - J S Bach
		The indisputable master of Baroque music, Bach’s reputation is greater today than ever.
		Highly prolific, he wrote timeless music for both sacred and secular purposes, and was especially famous in his day as a brilliant organist.
		Bach is regarded by most musicians as a genius of Western music
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/bachjs.shtml (346 words)

	J. S. Bach and the Bach Recordings and Bach Cantatas Mailing Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are so many different recordings of Bach's works, and the year 2000 will see many new ones, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his death.
		This mailing list is similar to the Bach Recordings mailing list, but the goal here is to discuss favorite and recently released recordings of early music.
		Many people feel that Bach's greatest music is found in the more than 200 cantatas he wrote during his career.
	www.mcelhearn.com /bach.html (310 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: J.S. Bach (Oxford Composer Companions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Appendixes include a list of Bach's compositions (including BWV numbering, date of composition, scoring, first publication date, location of the autograph score, and page in the complete works publications), text incipits, chronologies of lives and compositions, a glossary of terms, a map of Bach's Germany, and a family tree.
		There are also a number of entries for current Bach festivals and twentieth-century musicians noted for Bach interpretations, such as Glenn Gould and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
		Black-and-white illustrations of Bach, his sons, places important in his life, a family tree, manuscripts of his works, and a map of his Germany enhance the text.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198662084?v=glance (926 words)

	J.S. Bach's Ornament Table
		Such a table as this, coming from the hand of the great J.S. Bach himself, is obviously valuable for the help it gives us in interpreting the signs he used for ornaments.
		C.P.E. Bach's authority on these matters has been much disputed, but the fact that his own music is very different from his father's, and the shift that musical idioms underwent after Sebastian's death, do not necessarily invalidate the application of ornamentation rules from Emanuel's famous Essay to the music of Sebastian.
		The third of J.S. Bach's "Inventions" (also known as "Two-Part Inventions"), BWV 774, shows several of the ornaments in the above table in action, including the mordent, the trill, and the turn.
	members.aol.com /kjvisbest/jsb_ornm.htm (1695 words)

	J.S. Bach Web Ring
		Presentation of J S Bach's keyboard temperament, as proposed by Bradley Lehman in an _Early Music_ article (Oxford) February-May 2005.
		A brief study of the theology of J. Bach, comparing pietist, rationalist, and orthodox Lutheran theological ideas with his expressions of faith.
		JS Bach's Acclaimed Goldberg Variations arranged for Classical Guitar by Lynn Harting-Ware.
	b.webring.com /hub?ring=jsbachwebring (1001 words)

	Dave's J.S. Bach Page - Bach Quiz
		Now at last, here is a recorded series that will present all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach in virtuosic performances on the clavichord, using superb reproductions by Ronald Haas of period instruments.
		Richard Troeger is a keyboard master whose Bach interpretations are among the finest ever recorded.
		He now lives in the Boston area, where he is completing a recording project for Lyrichord Discs that embraces all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach, and is writing a book on the performance of Bach's music.
	www.jsbach.net /quiz14.html (645 words)

	J.S. BACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Bach Archive and the J.S. Bach Bibliography are complementary to the Bach Home Page created by Jan Hanford.
		The illustrated biography is linked to and can be read in combination with the J.S. Bach Tourist, which follows the same sequence of Bach places as the biography and which is a personal impression (with photographs) of my visit to Bach sites in Germany in 1995.
		These Bach pages were created on a completely non-commercial basis, with the sole purpose of doing some service to the world-wide community of lovers of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including those that have no access to major libraries or other archives.
	www.let.rug.nl /Linguistics/diversen/bach/intro.html (282 words)

	Bach, J.S.
		Bach, J.S. - Dances of J.S. Bach (Hinson) [Alfred Publishing Co.]
		Bach, J.S. - Inventions and Sinfonias (2- and 3-Part Inventions) (CD recorded by Lloyd-Watts) [Alfred Publishing Co.]
		Bach, J.S. - Inventions and Sinfonias (2- and 3-Part Inventions) (Comb-Bound) (Palmer) [Alfred Publishing Co.]
	store.musicbasics.com /bachjs.html (309 words)

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