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  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.
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)

  
 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.
Johann Sebastian soon lost his soprano voice, but was able to make himself useful as a violinist in the orchestra, and as an accompanist at the harpsichord during choir rehearsals.
Bach then became a member (after some persuasion) 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.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Bach/JSB_bio_Arton/bqxjsbach.html   (8566 words)

  
 Articles - Johann Sebastian Bach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach's contributions to music, or, to borrow a term popularised 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.alistic.com /articles/Johann_Sebastian_Bach   (4932 words)

  
 Cantata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From the middle of the 17th till late in the 18th century a favourite form of Italian chamber music was the cantata for one or two solo voices, with accompaniment of harpsichord and perhaps a few other solo instruments.
This is equally evident whether we examine the unparalleled church cantatas of Bach, of which nearly 200 are extant (see list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach), or the Chandos Anthems of Handel.
In Johann Sebastian Bach's case many of the larger cantatas are actually called oratorios; and the Christmas Oratorio is a collection of six church cantatas actually intended for performance on six different days, though together forming as complete an artistic whole as any classical oratorio.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cantata.htm   (774 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)

  
 The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
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.
This is the heart of the season with cantatas, chamber music and the annual performances of The Mass in B Minor.
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.
www.bach.org   (155 words)

  
 Books about Johann Sebastian Bach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bach's cantatas are settings of sacred texts (and secular texts, for a handful of them) to music, in a structure that alternates chorales, arias, and recitatives.
While the cantatas can be appreciated for the music they contain, a deeper exploration of their texts can help listeners to understand the reasons behind many of Bach's musical choices.
Each cantata is presented with its BWV number (the standard Bach catalogue number), its title, the author of the text, or the biblical reference, for chorales, and the texts of each individual movement.
www.mcelhearn.com /bachbib.html   (1897 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach Discography & Biography, Johann Sebastian Bach Albums & CDs
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685.
Bach went on to hold a number court organist positions, and became know as a virtuoso on the instrument.
In 1708, JS Bach was appointed organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and in the next nine years he composed many of his finest works for the instrument.
www.prex.com /biography/Bach-discography.html   (710 words)

  
 Cantatas (from Johann Sebastian Bach) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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,...
Of the group, Johann Sebastian Bach has been acclaimed as one of the giants of musical history.
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-12131?tocId=12131   (761 words)

  
 bwv
The numbers were assigned by Wolfgang Schmieder in 1950, indicating the placement in the catalogue of Bach's works entitled Thematisch-Systemattisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach.
For a list of Bach's works arranged by BWV number, see list of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach.
List of recordings of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
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 Amazon.com: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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.
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.
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 Classical Net - Bach Cantatas - Listener's Guide
The cantatas of J. Bach form an exceptional body of work that, for various reasons, seem not to be as well known by the listening public as the venerated status of their composer suggests they should be.
Thus, cantatas rated as 1* seem to me to be close to Bach's highest level of inspiration and comparable with those that are commonly considered his greatest works.
I will not attempt here to explain the background to Bach's cantatas, since there are already many excellent sources of this material available and I would not be able to add anything of any value to them.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/cantatas.html   (2934 words)

  
 Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.S. Bach
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.
Cantatas #211 "Coffee" and 212 "Peasant", BWV 211 and 212/L'Oiseau-Lyre 417621-2
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/bachjs.html   (3071 words)

  
 Bach. MIDI/ZIP collections and life: kunstderfuge.com.
Bach’s preference for this practice ensured that wherever his keyboard fugues have been admired the prelude and fugue has served as one of the most important genres to incorporate fugal writing.
The mature Bach employed fugue in his music for organ, for keyboard (harpsichord) and for voices.
in the B minor Mass) Bach eventually abandoned the permutation fugue model in favour of that of the keyboard fugues.
www.kunstderfuge.com /bach.htm   (721 words)

  
 Classical composer biographies
His sonatas don’t seem to have the purity of development that one finds in Bach, but they do conjure up images of beautiful, elegant dance in a way that Bach does not.
Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born in the same year, but though Bach and Handel knew of each other, it was only Handel and Scarlatti that managed to meet.
Composed a large number of concerti, inspiring Bach to the same form.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/composers.html   (3025 words)

  
 J. S. Bach and the Bach Recordings and Bach Cantatas Mailing Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
The goal of this list is to discuss the cantatas, one by one.
www.mcelhearn.com /bach.html   (310 words)

  
 The London Bach Society - Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The London Bach Society is the UK's premier Bach society, bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 'live' to both the devoted follower and curious newcomer for over 50 years.
On this site you will be able to subscribe to the free mailing list, get details of the next Bachfest, find out more about the Steinitz Bach Players, or discover how you can support the LBS in an individual or corporate role.
Composed in October 1713 for the birthday of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, the score is in Bach's own hand and the Aria is a setting of a strophic aria with ritornello, for solo soprano, strings and basso continuo.
www.bachlive.co.uk   (380 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.
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.
Although some of the forms in which he wrote—the church cantata, for example—were outdated before he died, he poured into them all the resources of his genius so that they have outlived most other examples.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/bach.html   (1210 words)

  
 Bach: Cantatas & Arias - Johann Sebastian Bach - Low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The artists which made "Bach: Cantatas & Arias" are Johann Sebastian Bach, Otto Klemperer, Peter Gellhorn, Thurston Dart, James W. Merrett, Karl Reznicek, Isolde Ahlgrimm, Sidney Sutcliffe, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and Philharmonia Orchestra of London.
Bach: Cantatas & Arias was a very pretty present when I got it on 11 January, 2000.
Bach - Mass in B _ minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner - Johann Sebastian Bach
music.lowcost.us.com /item_42303030303244445644/Bach_Cantatas_Arias.php   (675 words)

  
 Web Sites with Bach Information
Johann Sebastian Bach: the well tempered tuning is unequal
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.
Their SONY Classical Celebrates Bach is a lovely site celebrating the 250th anniversary of Bach's death.
www.jsbach.org /web.html   (959 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach - List of Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Between 1946 and 1950 Dr. Wolfgang Schmieder compiled a numerical listing of Bach's opus according to musical forms.
Schmieder assigned a BWV number (Bach Werk Verzeichnis) to each work, and this idea was so successful, that most of Bach's works are now known not only through their title but also through their BWV number.
In the event that you want more detailed information about Bach's works, please consult a copy of Schmieder's book in a local library.
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 Excite - Search: %22Johann Sebastian Bach%2...
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Sebastian Bach will give you the information you need to understand the life of the "father of counterpoint".
It was created using the educational biographical framework.
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 List of choral works -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
List of choral works -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
This page is a list of musical works written for (The area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave) choir, sorted by (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer's birth date.
See also list of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and (Click link for more info and facts about list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach) list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_choral_works.htm   (617 words)

  
 BAROQUE MUSIC PAGE: biogs, pictures, music samples
A Special CD Double Album sampling Bach's varied output.
Or discover the difference between the Italian violin bow which we know today, and the German baroque bow which is never seen nor heard today, though popular in baroque Germany (check the accompanying illustration from 1732).
ontemporary with, and a personal friend of JS Bach was one of the two leading baroque organ-builders: Gottfried Silbermann.There are still some 30 of Silbermann's organs extant in Saxony, southern Germany, many in near-original condition, from the small village organs in which he excelled, to the 3-Manual 44-Stop organ in Freiberg Cathedral.
www.baroquemusic.org   (539 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach - Mp3 organ music
The sense that your spirit is sprinkled with spring rain.
The music seems to span over centuries with never changing optimism and joy, joy to exist, to be alive and part of Creation.
Eres una gran intérprete de lo mejor de Bach, me gustaria recibir algunas partituras en especial, la de la tocata y fuga en re menor.
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 ipedia.com: List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach Article - ipedia.com
List of sacred and profane cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach
List of songs and arias of Johann Sebastian Bach
www.ipedia.com /list_of_compositions_of_johann_sebastian_bach.html   (3138 words)

  
 Classical MIDI Connection: Johann Sebastian Bach
Applicatio in C (Aus dem Clavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach), [BWV994] (3k) Leonardo Collinelli
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Cantata No. 56) - 1st.
Twenty Pieces from Bach's Book for His Son Friedman Faren Raborn, © 1996
www.classicalmidiconnection.com /cmc/bach.html   (1479 words)

  
 JS Bach - BWV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Cantatas of J.S. Bach: A Performers' Index
Melodic Index to the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach
The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Analytical Guide
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 Classical Music - ArkivMusic - Classical Music
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