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Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Little is known of Maria Barbara; she died suddenly on 7 July 1720, while Bach was abroad with Prince Leopold. 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/Bach

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

SPECTRUM Biographies - Johann Sebatian Bach Both his parents had died by the time Bach was 10, so his oldest brother, also named Johann Christoph after his uncle, took over his care and musical education. Bach had also had some arguments with the singers in the church chorale, so he was not completely happy with his situation. Bach's father was a string player who was employed not only by the town council but also at the court of Eisenach. www.incwell.com /Biographies/Bach,JS.html

CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: J.S. Bach Biography 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. 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. 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). www.classicalarchives.com /bios/bach_bio.html

Johann Sebastian Bach 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. 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. w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/bachjs.html

Bach Bach's sight began to fail in the last year of his life, and he died on July 28, 1750, after undergoing an unsuccessful eye operation. Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, into a family that over seven generations produced at least 53 prominent musicians, from Veit Bach to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. Bach's first wife died in 1720, and the next year he married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a fine singer and daughter of a court musician. www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Bach.html

Essentials of Music - Composers Bach was also a deeply religious man. His personal Bible is filled with annotations and comments, and this depth of feeling finds its way into his sacred music, which often strikes the listener as an intensely personal statement of faith. In the case of Bach, however, his genius is a combination of a number of simpler qualities, all of which point to that human side. Because of the demands of his various employers, Bach was able to create works in a wide variety of genres, providing a breadth of expression not often seen. www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/bach.html

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem Bach spent a lot of time arguing with his employers, particularly when they admitted singers into the choir whom he had rejected as "useless." Bach’s "St. Matthew Passion" made no impression on the authorities who employed him, and they even voted to reduce his salary. Just to copy the parts required the help of four of Bach’s choirboys and his family. Bach considered leaving Leipzig for other employment, but in the end stayed on for the remaining twenty years of his life. www.bach.org /school_lessons.html

Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.C. Bach Bach and the youngest to live to maturity, Johann Christian received his early musical training from his father, than whom music has spawned no greater genius. Bach departed from the musical style of his father and older brothers, ranticipating and indeed contributing to the development of the so-called "classical" era. Mozart acknowledged his debt to his mentor by using several of Bach's piano sonatas as the bases for his own piano concertos. www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/bachjc.html

NPR : The Passions of Bach J.S. Bach is shown at the approximate age of 30 in this unauthenticated portrait believed to have been painted by Johann Ernst Rentsch. Staring out from this portrait is a young Bach, a handsome Bach, a dashing, intense man. I felt, as soon as I saw this portrait, that it offered a key to understanding both the man and the music. Indeed, it's important to remember that the emotions that find their expression in religion, or in religious texts and musical settings, are but variants of the feelings common to all people: love, longing, fear, devotion, peace, excitement, expectation, comfort, joy, and so forth. www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/mar/bach

Bach, Musicological Font The musical symbols in Bach follow the standard convention found in many academic books and journals. Bach was originally designed for use in a spreadsheet to create a database for manuscript study (see the image left). Bach is a font for writing essays or compiling databases which need to have some musical symbols in them. www.music.qub.ac.uk /~tomita/bach-mf.html

Amazon.com: Books: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician Bach refused to divorce theory from practice, so his collections of music like the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Art of the Fugue served to show how a particular form of music (e.g., the keyboard or the fugue) could be applied in just about any combination imaginable. Wolff has excavated contemporary documents, giving remarkable detail on Bach's earnings and on the disposition of his manuscripts after his death to the various members of his multitudinous family; also included are charming examples of the musician's youthful zeal, such as his journey, 250 miles on foot, to see and hear the admired organist/composer Buxtehude. For example, we know that nearly all of Bach's solo and multiple piano concerti have their roots in previous concerti, but little attention is paid as to why Bach chose to transcribe to piano(harpsichord), why he selected the works he did, and whether there is a distinct method/pattern to Bach's transcriptions. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322564?v=glance

American Bach Soloists - Jeffrey Thomas, music Director Over the years we have worked hard to provide for you one place where you can hear the finest performances of Bach and his contemporaries, as well as choral masterpieces, and Summer Evenings of Chamber Music performed by a roster of artists that have been heralded as a "who's who" of the early music world. We are now moving into the third year of our "Bach Cycle" which represents our commitment to program works by the greatest master of the Baroque era. One program in particular will celebrate some of the finest music from two legendary composers of the Baroque: Bach’s Orchestral Suites will be paired with some of Handel’s most stunning vocal works. www.americanbach.org

EUROPA - Economic and Financial Affairs - Indicators - BACH database homepage BACH is free of charge and for internal use only. Dissemination of BACH data to third parties is strictly forbidden. EUROPA - Economic and Financial Affairs - Indicators - BACH database homepage europa.eu.int /comm/economy_finance/indicators/bachdatabase_en.htm

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem The Bach Collegium of Japan — Spring Concert The 95 volunteer members sing with the dedication and enthusiasm of The Bach Choir of a century ago, but today’s performances, featuring the finely-honed vocal ensemble, a fully professional orchestra, and world-renowned soloists, reveal a new level of musicianship and understanding of Bach’s choral universe. In honor of the 321st anniversary of Bach’s birthday, we present an all-Bach instrumental program by the world-renowned Bach Collegium and a pre-concert dialogue between conductors Masaaki Suzuki and Greg Funfgeld. www.bach.org

San Francisco Bach Choir J.S. Bach: Brilliance and Majesty, March 11 and 12, 2006 Babbitt, the choir has expanded its programming focus, specializing not only in Bach, but in all the music from the rich German choral tradition spanning from the late 16th through the 18th centuries. The San Francisco Bach Choir announces the release of its most recent CD recording, Ceremonies and Celebrations. www.sfbach.org

J. S. Bach and the Bach Recordings and Bach Cantatas Mailing Lists 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. Many people feel that Bach's greatest music is found in the more than 200 cantatas he wrote during his career. 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. www.mcelhearn.com /bach.html

Carmel Bach Festival Welcome! Founded in 1935 and now enjoying its 68th season, the Carmel Bach Festival has built an international reputation in presenting the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and his musical heirs on period instruments. The Carmel Bach Festival began as a three-day festival of concerts at the Sunset School Auditorium and the Carmel Mission Basilica. Festival attendees are also invited to enjoy a variety of free lectures, family concerts, and other complimentary events. www.bachfestival.com

Bach Week Festival A rite of spring in Chicago, Bach Week Festival marries the best of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries - and a few surprises each season - with the Midwest's finest classical musicians. on Friday, May 5 and Friday, May 12, then stay for a 7:30 concert that features the best of Bach and his contemporaries, enlivened with very twenty-first century video projections. The Bach Week Festival offers the legendary and familiar, alongside some seldom heard or unusual works of the Baroque era, performed by the Chicago area's most celebrated musicians and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus. www.bachweek.org

Bach Festival of Philadelphia - Calendar 2002 The Bach Festival is collaborating with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Philadelphia Museum of Art to present the great Dutch cellist, Anner Bylsma, acclaimed world-wide especially for his interpretation of Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello (Pro Arte). Father Duggan’s unique mission is to “Play Bach,” and he regularly performs the entire keyboard corpus in a series of concerts. Bach cantatas, including “Darzu is erschienen der Sohn Gottes,” BWV 40. www.bach-fest.org /concerts2002.htm

Bach Choir of Pittsburgh Bach Choir of Pittsburgh is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Allegheny Regional Asset District (ARAD), The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Grable Foundation, and other local foundations and corporations. The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh proudly announces that former Interim Artistic Director, Thomas Douglas, has been named as the new Artistic Director and Conductor of the organization. The site of Bach Choir of Pittsburgh is hosted by Master of Arts Management Program,The Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon and Artswire. www.bachchoirpittsburgh.org

About Bach Bibliography In September 2000, I read a paper at International Bach Symposium Utrecht 2000 (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) entitled "Setting up Research Resources for the future: On-line Bach Bibliography Project and International Collaboration", in which I outlined the details of my future plan of its expansion. A revised version of the paper was presented at the IAML conference in July 2003. Bach Bibliography is currently accessible from six different sites, as shown below: www.music.qub.ac.uk /~tomita/bachbib.html

Web Sites with Bach Information This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new series of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers. The reference source for info on this important builder who was a close friend of and worked extensively with J.S. Bach. Their SONY Classical Celebrates Bach is a lovely site celebrating the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. www.jsbach.org /web.html

Welcome to BachBrass.com Vincent Bach, in combining his unique talents as both a musician and an engineer, created brass instruments which remain the sound choice of artists worldwide. However, a strong demand remained for Bach instruments and mouthpieces due to their superior design, high quality, and prompt service. Offers of $50 were received for Bach mouthpieces — mouthpieces at the time sold for $1.50. www.bachbrass.com

Bach Flower Essences - www.bachflower.com The Bach Flower Essences are 100% safe and natural and work in conjunction with herbs, homeopathy and medications. Bach and Bach Flower Essences are trademark of Bach Flower Remedies Ltd, Oxfordshire, England Bach Flower Essences has been used all over the world since the 1930s. www.bachflower.com

Dr Edward Bach Centre bach Flower flower Remedies remedies Essences essences courses books education training Mount Vernon was the home and workplace of Dr Bach in the last years of his life, when he completed his research into the flower remedies that still bear his name. The Centre is open to visitors, and in everything we do we aim to maintain the simplicity and purity of Dr Bach's work, in the way he intended. Making mother tinctures is of course the most important thing the trustees and helpers at the Bach Centre do. www.bachcentre.com

The Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach Web Site This concert is on May 21st at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, a mere 22.67 miles and five months from the last P.D.Q. Bach concert in New York City. This opera in one irrevocable act is based on a dream that P.D.Q. Bach had the night of December 4, 1791, the night that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died and Antonio Salieri didn’t. There will be performances of P.D.Q. Bach: The Vegas Years in Arkansas and Los Angeles and, by either popular demand or an amazing coincidence, even a concert in Las Vegas this season. www.schickele.com

Bach Flower Remedies (Bach Flower Essences) Each of the 38 remedies discovered by Dr Bach is directed at a particular characteristic or emotional state. To select the remedies you need you only need to think about the sort of person you are and the way you are feeling. Here is a list of the 38 remedies and their indications. www.bachcentre.com /centre/remedies.htm

Welcome to the Boulder Bach Festival The Boulder Bach Festival was founded in 1981 to present the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and to encourage knowledge and appreciation of the Baroque master. December 31, 2005: Ridi Van Zandt New Years Eve Bach Celebration Since 1982 a three-day festival has been presented each year, featuring an orchestra, chorus, and soloists drawn from the pool of area musicians, with a few nationally-known artists from other parts of the country. www.boulderbachfest.org

Oregon Bach Festival Eugene, Oregon As the joyous ovation subsided for The Creation, the final 2005 concert, Oregon Bach Festival audiences and artists celebrated a year of premieres, diversity, joyous music, and an influx of new audiences. Helmuth Rilling, artistic director and conductor, leads two weeks of choral-orchestral concerts centering on the music and wide-ranging influence of J.S. Bach. Look for the complete schedule of more than 40 events to be announced Febuary 1, 2006. bachfest.uoregon.edu

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