Johann Sebastian Bach. Soundtrack: Minority Report. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, into a large and distinguished family of professional musicians. His father, named Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a violini
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He was a member of a remarkable family of musicians who were proud of their achievements, and about 1735 hedrafteda genealogy,Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie(“Origin of the Musical Bach Family”), in which he traced his ancestry back to his great-great-grandfather Veit Bach, a...
The brothers’ problem seems to have been solved by Elias Herda, Kantor and a master at the Lyceum. He had been educated at Lüneburg, and no doubt it was he who arranged for Sebastian to go north; probably he similarly helped Georg Erdmann, a fellow pupil of Sebastian’s, three years ...
“Origin of the Musical Bach Family”), in which he traced his ancestry back to his great-great-grandfather Veit Bach, a Lutheran baker (or miller) who late in the 16th century was driven from Hungary to Wechmar in Thuringia, a historic region of Germany, by religious persecution and ...
A representative for actressCatherine Bachhas described the death of the star's husband as a "tragic personal loss" after music attorneyPeter Lopezwas found dead outside the family home in California. Lopez, who spent seven years working forMichael Jackson, was found after paramedics responded to...
His sonatas for violin and keyboard—typically performed with the cello augmenting the continuo—gave birth to an entirely new genre, after which Johannes Brahms would write his Piano Trio in c minor. Mozart’s Divertimento, a masterpiece as beguiling in character as it is epic in breadth, ...
really, only F major chord from the beginning until the end. [laughs] Just to recite all the Bible texts and so on. That was still performed. The very first passion of Bach in the Leipzig time was the St. John’s Passion, which was a really shocking experience for everyone, I thought...
If you need an example of what made Segovia a great artist sample the beautiful, haunting tone which he employs for de Visée’s 'Sarabande' (track 10). In the Bach pieces the marvellous logic of the German master’s music is very well served by the clarity of Segovia’s playing. ...
Late in 1713 Bach had the opportunity of succeeding Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow at the Liebfrauenkirche, Halle; but the duke raised his salary, and he stayed on at Weimar. On March 2, 1714, he became concertmaster, with the duty of composing a cantata every month. He became friendly with a...