Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach 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 works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have provided inspiration to nearly every musician in the European tradition, from Mozart to Schoenberg. Formative Years J. S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685. His father, Ambrosius Bach, was the town piper in Eisenach, a post that entailed organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the direction of the church organist, and his uncles were also all professional musicians ranging from.
List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach - List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach The BWV numbers given here are from Bach-Werke Verzeichnis by Wolfgang Schmieder, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works. They are often used to establish exactly which piece the writer is referring to. List of sacred and profane cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach Liturgical works in latin BWV232 - Messa in B minor BWV233 - Messa in F Major BWV233a - Kyrie in F Major BWV234 - Messa in A Major BWV235 - Messa in G minor BWV236 - Messa in G Major BWV237 - Sanctus in C Major BWV238 - Sanctus in D Major BWV239 - Sanctus in D Major BWV240 - Sanctus in G Major BWV241 - Sanctus in D Major BWV242 - Christe Eleison BWV243 - Magnificat in D.
List of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach - List of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach This is a list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in order of BWV number as given in Wolfgang Schmieder's catalogue of Bach's works. It should be noted that they are not in chronological order (the earliest cantata by Bach, for example, is believed to be Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150). Also, since Schmieder made his original listing, several of the works have been discovered to be by composers other than J. S. Bach. See also: List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach BWV1 - Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV2 - Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein BWV3 - Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid BWV4 - Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV5 - Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV6.
List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach - List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach As well as the various chorale harmonisations to be found in Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas and passions, a number of harmonisations exist by him not attached to any larger work. They are (with BWV number from the catalogue by Wolfgang Schmieder): BWV250 - Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan BWV251 - Sei Lob und Ehr' Dem hoechsten Gut BWV252 - Nun danket alle Gott BWV253 - Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV254 - Ach Gott, erhoer' mein Seufzen BWV255 - Ach Gott und Herr BWV256 - Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost BWV257 - Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit BWV258 - Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns haelt BWV259 - Ach, was soll ich Suender machen BWV260.
List of songs and arias of Johann Sebastian Bach - List of songs and arias of Johann Sebastian Bach See also: Johann Sebastian Bach, List of works of Johann Sebastian Bach BWV439 - Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde BWV440 - Auf, auf! die rechte Zeit ist hier BWV441 - Auf! auf! mein Herz, mit Freuden BWV442 - Beglueckter Stand getreuer Seelen BWV443 - Beschraenkt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt BWV444 - Brich entzwei, mein armes Herze BWV445 - Brunnquell aller Gueter BWV446 - Der lieben Sonnen Licht und Pracht BWV447 - Der Tag ist hin, die Sonne gehet nieder BWV448 - Der Tag mit seinem Lichte BWV449 - Dich bet'ich an, mein hoechster Gott BWV450 - Die bittre Leidenszeit beginnet abermal BWV451 - Die goldne Sonne, voll Freud' und Wonne BWV452 - Dir, dir Jehovah, will ich singen BWV453.
List of recordings of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach - List of recordings of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach Recordings of music by Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Matthew's Passion, BWV 244, Karl Richter, 1959 - St. Matthew's Passion, BWV 244, Phillipe Herreweghe, 1985 - St. John's Passion, BWV 245, Karl Richter, 1964 - St. John's Passion, BWV 245, Phillipe Herreweghe, 1988 - Motets, BWV 225-230, Phillipe Herreweghe, 1986 - Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Andrw Parrott, 1985 - Magnificat, BWV 243, Cantata "Ein feste Burg", BWV 80, Philippe Herreweghe, 1990, 1997 - Cantats BWV 21 and 42, Phillipe Herreweghe, 1990 - Trio Sonatas, BWV 525 - 530, Holm Vogel, 1984 - The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Glenn Gould, piano, 1955 - The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Glenn Gould, piano, 1981 - The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Rosalyn.
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach - Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715— 1739), fourth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was, like his elder brothers, born at Weimar and educated at Leipzig, Germany. From 1735 to 1738 he held successively the organist posts at Mühlhausen and Sangerhausen. In 1738 he threw up his appointment and went to study law at Jena; in 1739 he died suddenly, aged 24. Adapted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732—1795), the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was born at Leipzig, Germany, studied at the St. Thomas school and the university there, and in 1750 was appointed capeilmeister at Buckeburg. He was an industrious composer, especially of church-music and opera, whose work reflects no discredit on the family name. Adapted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Johann Christian Bach - Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (1735—1782), the eleventh son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was born at Leipzig, Germany, and on the death of his father in 1750 became the pupil of his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach at Berlin. In 1754 he went to Italy where he studied under Giovanni Baptista Martini, and from 1760 to 1762 held the post of organist at Milan cathedral, for which he wrote two Masseses, a Requiem, a Te Deum and other works. Having also gained some reputation as a composer of opera, he was in 1762 invited to London and there spent the rest of his life. For twenty years he was the most popular musician in England, his dramatic works, produced at the King’s theatre, were received.
Johann Aegidus Bach - Johann Aegidus Bach Johann Aegidus Bach (1645 - 1716) was the father of the composer Johann Bernhard Bach, and organist and municipal orchestra director of Erfurt, Germany. He was Johann Sebastian Bach's uncle. External Links List of members of the Bach family.
Johann Ludwig Bach - Johann Ludwig Bach Johann Ludwig Bach (born February 4, 1677, buried May 1, 1731) was a composer and violinist. He was born in Thal. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister. He wrote a large amount of music and regularly oversaw performances, both at Meiningen and neighbouring courts. He was a second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach, who made copies of several of his cantatas and performed them at Leipzig. The cantata Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Hoelle lassen, once thought to be by Johann Sebastian, and listed as BWV 15 in Wolfgang Schmieder's catalogue of his works, is now thought to be by Johann Ludwig..
Johann Friedrich Agricola - Johann Friedrich Agricola Johann Friedrich Agricola (January 4, 1720 - December 2, 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, teacher and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio. He was born in Dobitschen. While a student of law at Leipzig he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1741 he went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz. He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skillful organists of his time. The success of his comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of Karl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra..
Johann Pachelbel - Johann Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel (1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer and organist best remembered for his Canon in D, which is often heard at weddings. Pachelbel was organist at Erfurt, in the Thuringian region of Germany and his harmonizations of church chorales seem to have been inspirational to the young Johann Sebastian Bach, whose older brother, Johann Christoph Bach, had been Pachelbel's organ student. Indeed, Pachelbel seems to have enjoyed close friendships with many members of the Bach family of musicians. Pachelbel served in the capelle in Eisenach, the home city of Ambrosius Bach and birthplace of his many children including Johann Sebastian and Johann Christoph, for a year in the 1670s. Pachelbel also stood as godfather for Ambrosius Bach's daughter (Johann.
Johann Matthias Gesner - Johann Matthias Gesner Johann Matthias Gesner (April 9, 1691 - August 3, 1761), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Roth an der Rednitz near Ansbach. He studied at the University of Jena, and in 1714 published a work on the Philopatiis ascribed to Lucian. In 1715 he became librarian and corrector (vice-principal) at Weimar, Germany, where he became good friends with Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach later dedicated his Canon a 2 perpetuus BWV 1075 to Gesner), in 1729 rector of the gymnasium at Ansbach, and in 1730 rector of the Thomas school at Leipzig. On the foundation of the University of Göttingen he became professor of rhetoric (1734) and subsequently librarian. He died at Göttingen. His special merit lies in the attention he devoted.
Johann Nikolaus Forkel - Johann Nikolaus Forkel Johann Nikolaus Forkel (February 22, 1749 - 1818), German musician and musical historian, was born at Meeder in Coburg. He was the son of a cobbler, and as a practical musician, especially as a pianoforte player, achieved some eminence; but his claims to a more abiding name rest chiefly upon his literary skill and deep research as an historian of musical science and literature, He was an enthusiastic admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music he did much to popularize. He also wrote the first biography of Bach (in 1802), one which is of particular value today, as he was was able to correspond directly with Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and thereby obtained much valuable information that.
Johann Friedrich Fasch - Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (April 15, 1688 - December 5, 1758) was a German composer. He was born in Buttelstädt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the Thomasschule in Leipzig (he later founded a Collegium Musicum in the city). He then travelled throughout Germany, becoming a violinist in the orchestra in Bayreuth in 1714, and also holding court posts in Greiz and Lukavec. In 1722 he was appointed Kapellmeister at Zerbst, a post he held until his death. His works include cantatas, concertos, symphonies and chamber music. None of his pieces were printed in his lifetime, and a large number of his vocal works, including four operas, have been lost. He was held in high regard by his contemporaries,.
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, first published in 1979 by Basic Books. At one level, it is a book about how the creative achievements of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach interweave. As the author states: "I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to reconstruct the central object, and came up with this book." At a deeper level, however, the discussion of these three artists is not actually what the book is about. It is used as a device to illuminate the central theme of the book, which Hofstadter states is this:.
Bach - Bach Bach is the surname of a number of people: The Bach Dynasty Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer, organist) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Composer, organist) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Composer, harpsichordist) Johann Bernhard Bach (Composer, harpsichordist, organist) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (Composer) Johann Ludwig Bach (Composer) Johann Christian Bach (Composer) P. D. Q. Bach (Fictitious composer, alter ego of Peter Schickele) Barbara Bach (actress) [1] Richard Bach (novelist) Vincent Bach, trumpet player and founder of famous US trumpet-making company There is also the BACH motif, which features in a number of pieces of music. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and.
BACH motif - BACH motif In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. The possibilty of being able to spell the surname Bach in this way comes about because in German B indicates what in English is called B flat, while H indicates what in English is called B natural. This four-note motif has been used by a number of composers, most usually as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. The first known example, however, is in a piece by Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck. It is possible, though not certain, that he used it in homage to one of Johann Sebastian's ancestors, many of whom were themselves musicians. J. S. Bach himself used it as a fugue subject in the final part.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Weimar, March 8, 1714 - 1788), German musician and composer, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach. When he was ten years old he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, of which in 1723 his father had become cantor, and continued his education as a student of jurisprudence at the universities of Leipzig (1731) and of Frankfurt an der Oder (1735). In 1738 he took his degree, but at once abandoned all prospects of a legal career and determined to devote himself to music. A few months later he obtained an appointment in the service of the crown prince of Prussia, on whose accession in 1740 he became a member of the royal household. He was by this time one.
