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	Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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'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.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/johann_sebastian_bach.html (1805 words)

	Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (June 21, 1732 – January 26, 1795), the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach".
		He is not to be confused with Bach's first cousin once removed, Johann Christoph Bach.
		In 1750, Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed Johann Christoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759, he became Konzertmeister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_Bach (253 words)

	Bach, Johann Christoph: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johann Sebastian's 1st cousin once removed (and grandfather of his first wife, Maria Barbara) became town organist in Eisenach in the year 1665 and court chamber musician there in 1700.
		Johann Christoph was well-respected in the Bach family; Johann Sebastian's uncle (twin brother of his father, Ambrosius) was named Johann Christoph as were Johann Sebastian's older brother and second-to-youngest son.
		Johann Christoph composed choral works (motets and cantatas) and works for organ (preludes and fugues).
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/jchristoph.html (200 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography
		Johann Sebastian and one of his brothers, Johann Jakob, were taken into the home of their eldest brother, Johann Christoph (born l671) who had recently married and settled down at Ohrdruf, a small town thirty miles south-east of Eisenach.
		Johann Christoph was an excellent teacher - all of his five sons were to reach positions of some eminence in music, and he was a keen student of the latest keyboard compositions.
		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.
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Bach/JSB_bio_Arton/bqxjsbach.html (8566 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach
		Magister Johann Christoph Zerbst functioned as the officiating minister at the baptism of the child born to Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach on the previous Saturday, March 21.
		Christoph Bach served from 1642 to 1654 as town musician in Erfurt and thereafter as town and court musician in Arnstadt, eleven miles away.
		Christoph Bach's significance as a keyboard virtuoso can hardly be judged on the basis of his surviving works for organ and harpsichord, which do not measure up in either quantity or quality to his vocal oeuvre.
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	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 would now begin to devote more time to activities outside Leipzig; to examine for musical appointments, to advise on organ building, to lend support from time to time to such private establishments as at Cöthen and Weißenfels, where he was honorary Capellmeister from 1729-1736.
		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)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Johann Sebatian Bach
		Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in the Thuringian city of Eisenach, now in Germany.
		Bach's father was a string player who was employed not only by the town council but also at the court of Eisenach.
		Bach had also had some arguments with the singers in the church chorale, so he was not completely happy with his situation.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Bach,JS.html (884 words)

	Organ Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest and most influential composers to ever live.
		In 1717 Bach became the Kappellmeister and director of "Kammermusik" to Prince Leopold of Anhaldt at Cöthen.
		Bach was one of the first to write specifically for the organ, not merely for "keyboard".
	www.byu.edu /music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/bach.html (545 words)

	HOASM: Johann Christoph Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eldest son of Heinrich Bach, hence first cousin of J.S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach.
		He is to be distingished from Johann Christoph Bach (9), son of Christoph Bach and twin brother of Johann Ambrosius, J.S. Bach's father, and also from Johann Christoph (14), older brother of J. Bach.
		Johann Christoph Bach composed motets, cantatas and vocal concertos, arias, and organ music (44 chorales with preludes).
	www.hoasm.org /VIB/BachJohChr.html (272 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach - The Music Beat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johann Sebastian Bach was baptized at Eisenach on the 23rd of March 1685.
		Bach has plenty of humour, if the term may be applied to art which is, so to speak, always literal — art in which a jest is a jest and serious things are treated with familiar directness, and all, whether in jest or earnest, is primarily beautiful.
		J.S. Bach: Bist du bei mir (BWV 508) - An essay on the controversy of Bach's authorship of this aria; by Janet I. Wasserman.
	musicbeat.searchbeat.com /classical/bach.htm (3675 words)

	Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		January 26, 1795), the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach".
		In 1750 Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed Johann Christoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759 becoming Konzertmeister.
		Bach, to Johann Sebastian's other sons, said that P. Q.'s music has "the obscurity of Johann Christoph Friedrich."
	johann-christoph-friedrich-bach.biography.ms (208 words)

	Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Probably educated by his father's cousin Johann Elias Bach, J.C.F. Bach became a chamber musician to Count Wilhelm at Bückeburg in 1750, and was appointed concertmaster c.
		Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is celebrated as the creator of the Brandenburg Concertos,...
		One of the great organ masters of the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbel strongly influenced the development of the chorale, or traditional Protestant hymn tune, and popularized performances of music composed solely for the organ.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011640?tocId=9011640 (727 words)

	Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Second-to-youngest surviving son of Johann Sebastian and father of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, Johann Christoph Friedrich became court chamber musician at Bückeburg in the same year as his father's death.
		Known as the "Bückeburg" Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich composed oratorios, symphonies, cantatas, keyboard works, songs, and concertos.
		Johann Sebastian's elder brother, uncle, and second cousin all shared the name Johann Christoph.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/jcfbach.html (70 words)

	Bach, J. S.: Ohrdruf (1695-1700)
		When the Bachs had lived in Erfurt that brother had been a pupil of Johann Pachelbel, whose excellent training had qualified Johann Christoph for a position, in 1690, as organist at the Church of St. Michael in Ohrdruf.
		Johann Sebastian excelled in the new environment and quickly rose to the head of his class.
		Although Sebastian's brother is primarily remembered for his act of kindness, Johann Christoph's gift to the world weighed more than beneficent provision of bed and board to his younger sibling.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/ohrdruf.html (585 words)

	Island of Freedom - Johann Sebastian Bach
		Bach's music is now regarded as the high point of the baroque era, which lasted from 1600 to 1750, the year of his death.
		Bach's duties required that he write compositions of many kinds--organ and choral music for the church, chamber music for court use, and fairly straightforward harpsichord works for teaching the instrument.
		Bach's command of other instruments and their resources is evident in the six cello suites, the six violin sonatas and partitas, the four lute suites, and the accompanied sonatas for flute, violin, viola, and viola da gamba (now usually played on the cello).
	www.island-of-freedom.com /BACH.HTM (1342 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach @ Filmbug
		Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750) was a German composer, organist and musical scholar of the Baroque period, and is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
		His sons Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Johann Christian Bach, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach all became accomplished musicians, with C. Bach especially winning the respect of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		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.filmbug.com /db/343938 (1918 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach [encyclopedia]
		Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750) was a German organist, composer, and musical scholar of the Baroque period.
		Although the barriers to women having professional careers were great, all of Bach's daughters most likely sang and possibly played in their father's ensembles; one of his daughters married one of his favorite pupils.
		At the same time, Bach dedicated significant energies to writing a complete Mass in B minor, which incorporated what were presumably his favorite movements from earlier works along with new material in a collosal Mass that was, due to its size and length, unfortunately never performed during the composer's lifetime.
	artzia.com /History/Biography/Bach (1617 words)

	The Bach Family - The Archives of J. S. Bach [KME]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bach was naturally the natural follower of this vast family of musicians, and, while some of his ancestors' music is know and has been recorded, this is the first recording in extenso of Bach's own personal heritage, the actual works that he knew and, perhaps, studied and even performed.
		The lament Wie bist du denn, o Gott in Zorn, by Johann Christoph Bach, one of the longest works in this disc, is one such example: lugubrious, depressing, and monotonous, this work is truly not one I would like to listen to at all often.
		This compendium of works by Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestors is a valuable document contributing to our understanding of the great lineage of the Bach family.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Nov03/bach_archives.htm (795 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich
		German Classical period composer Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) was the sixteenth child and ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
		Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich · Brief musical biography with early influences, major positions held, and summary of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
		Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach · cached · Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with brief life and mention of his works.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=556352 (164 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		This fascinating set will be essential listening for fans of the most famous Bach, for it helps put in perspective Johann Sebastian's historical position--but more importantly, it clearly demonstrates his unapproachable preeminence among members of one of the world's most distinguished and talented musical families.
		Foremost among these is Johann Christoph's (a first cousin of Sebastian's father) strange and wonderful cantata Es erhub sich ein Streit im Himmel, a work for 22 voices.
		The cantatas by Johann Michael and Johann Christoph are vastly different from those later, transcendent works by Johann Sebastian, lacking the conceptual sophistication and devoid of the often extended, profound musical explications of the texts.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6609 (336 words)

	JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH BIOGRAPHY. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay ...
		Johann Sebastian Bach Biography Throughout the history of music, many great composers, theorists, and instrumentalists have left indelible marks and influences that people today look back on to admire and aspire to.
		Bach, who came from a family of over 53 musicians, was nothing short of a virtuosic instrumentalist as well as a masterful composer.
		Although demanding, Bach persisted and succeeded in Leipzig and continued to write music of various kinds with a level of craft and emotional profundity that was his alone.
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	Articles - Johann Michael Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johann Michael Bach (August 9, 1648 - May, 1694) was a German composer of the Baroque period.
		He was the brother of the better-known Johann Christoph Bach.
		Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's grandfather, Christoph.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Johann_Michael_Bach (228 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bach was an outstanding student at a fine school in Ohrdruf.
		Bach, and many other composers of his time, were experts at improvisation, composing musical pieces at instantly, on the spot - similar to jazz players today.
		Some people consider that most of Bach's works that are on paper are not worth saving anyway, since music written for one occasion (in Bach's case, church) should be discarded anyhow.
	www-atdp.berkeley.edu /9931/htsai/bach.html (360 words)

	Classical Net Review - Bachiana - Double Concertos
		The oldest, Wilhelm Friedemann, was born in 1710, and the youngest, Johann Christian, was born in 1735.
		Not all of Bach's sons were equally talented, but it is astonishing to contemplate what excellent and even occasionally inspired composers many of them were.
		Johann Christian (1735-1782) spent part of his career in London and was spoken of in the same breath as his younger rival, Wolfgang Mozart.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/a/arc71579a.html (542 words)

	NewOlde.com - Johann Christoph Friederich Bach
		Johann Christoph Friederich Bach, Die Amerikanerin; Johann Christoph Bach, "Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte"; Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, "Languet anima me"; Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 170 and 200; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Selma, Wq.
		J.C.F. Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel and Christlieb Sigmund Binder.
		Bach, C.P.E., J.C., J.C.F. and W.F. Bachiana 2: Double Concertos.
	www.newolde.com /jcf_bach.htm (134 words)

	CANTATE - Nur der kleine Bruder? Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hierfür sind alle Werke Johann Christoph Friedrichs entstanden, z.B. über 20 Sinfonien, einige Oratorien, weltliche und geistliche Kantaten sowie viele kammermusikalische Werke.
		Er stand in regem Kontakt zu Bach, der diese Zeit wegen des künstlerisch aufgeschlosseneren Klimas und des engen Kontaktes zu seinem in Berlin weilenden Bruders Carl Philipp Emanuel - der auch bei Johann Christoph Friedrichs Berufung nach Bückeburg eine wichtige Rolle gespielt hatte - als besonders glücklich empfand.
		Bach komponierte aus diesem Anlaß eine Kantate, die er, als der Graf dann ganz plötzlich doch starb, verwerfen mußte.
	www.cantate-online.de /artikel/0002-3.htm (782 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
		Son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, organist and town musician, J. Bach was orphaned at the age of 10 and went to live with his elder brother Johann Christoph at Ohrdruf where he had klavier and org.
		He was not selected, but the chosen candidate, Graupner, withdrew and Bach was appointed in May 1723, having in the meantime cond.
		Protestant religion was the root of all his art, allied to a tireless industry in the pursuit of every kind of refinement of his skill and technique.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/bach.html (1210 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.
		Johann Sebastian Bach pieces are indexed with BWV numbers, where BWV is Bach Werke Verzeichnis.
	www.e-paranoids.com /j/jo/johann_sebastian_bach.html (1905 words)

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