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J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

    Since the dawn of music, there have been many great
composers throughout the world. However, no composer had a
greater impact to music than Johann Sebastian Bach from the
Baroque era (1600 ad. -1750 ad.). Johann Sebastian Bach was a
forefather to music as the author Homer was a forefather Western
literature. Yet, unlike Homer's uses of words and verses in his
literature, J.S. Bach used notes and chords in his music which to him
was an apparatus of worship.
    Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in
Eisenach, Thuringina, into a family that over seven generations
created at least 53 outstanding musicians. He first received musical
training from his father, Johann Ambrosius, a town musician. Stricken
by his father's death at the young age of 10, he went to reside and
study with his older brother, Johann Christoph, an organist in Ohrdruf.
In 1700, Bach began to earn his own living as a chorister at the
Church of Saint Michael in Luneburg. Later in 1703, he became a
violinist in the chamber orchestra at the Church of Prince Ernst of
Weimar, but later moved to Arnstadt, where he became a church
organist. In October 1705, Bach went to Lubeck to study with the
distinguished Danish-born German organist and composer Dietrich
Buxtehude which largely affected Bach. Bach was then criticized for
the new lavish flourishes and bizarre harmonies in his organ
accompaniments to congregational singing. He was already too
highly respected, nevertheles...

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