Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Notable Works:
- sinfonia “Brandenburg Concertos” “Christmas Oratorio” “Fugue in E-flat Major” “God Is My King” “Hunt Cantata” “Jesu meine Freude” “Mass in B Minor” “Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor” “St. John Passion” “St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244” “Three-Part Inventions”
- Movement / Style:
- Baroque music
- Notable Family Members:
- son Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach son Johann Christian Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach, (born March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig), composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of north German musicians. 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, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B Minor, and numerous other masterpieces of church and instrumental music. Appearing at a ...(100 of 6291 words)