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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the ''Goldberg Variations'' and ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the ''Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the ''St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician, Johann Ambrosius, in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer periods, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723, he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. There, he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city and its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726, he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer. This situation was little remedied when his sovereign, Augustus III of Poland, granted him the title of court composer in 1736. In the last decades of his life, he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after a botched eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.
Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic, and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works but, for instance, also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. He wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments. He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his works employ contrapuntal techniques like canon and fugue.
Throughout the 18th century, Bach was primarily valued as an organist, while his keyboard music, such as ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', was appreciated for its didactic qualities. The 19th century saw the publication of some significant Bach biographies, and by the end of that century, all of his known music had been printed. Dissemination of scholarship on the composer continued through periodicals (and later also websites) exclusively devoted to him and other publications such as the ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' (BWV, a numbered catalogue of his works) and new critical editions of his compositions. His music was further popularised through a multitude of arrangements, including the ''Air on the G String'' and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", and of recordings, such as three different box sets with complete performances of the composer's oeuvre marking the 250th anniversary of his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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Well-tempered clavier forty-eight preludes and fugues by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Well-tempered clavier forty-eight preludes and fugues by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Two and theree-part inventions for the piano by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Chromatic fantasy and fugue;Concerto in the italian style;Fantasy in c minor;Prelude and fugue in A minor for the piano by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Cantata No. 4 christ lag in todesbanden an authoritative score, backgrounds, analysis, views and comments by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Cantata No. 140 wachet auf, rugt uns die stimme the score of the new Bach edition, backgrounds, analysis, views and comments by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Six suites for the viola (originally for violoncello) by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Six suites originally written for violoncello solo by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Mass in B minor (bwv 232) for SSATB soli, choir and orchestra vocal score by Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Brandenburg concertos by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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6 sonatas for violin and piano by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Complete keyboard transcriptions of concertos by baroque composers from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Mass in B minor from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Bach, Beethoven, Brahms by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Franzosische suiten by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Wohltemperiertes klavier 1 urtext by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Wohltemperiertes klavier 2 urtext by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Die sechs franzosischen suiten BWV 812-817 by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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Sechs suiten fur violoncello solo by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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6 sonaten fur violine und cembalo by Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
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