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Johann Sebastian Bach

     Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in
Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions
survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg
Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-
Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F
Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor
("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele.
He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians
in his family over a period of 300 years.
     Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on
March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a
talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills for string
playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important
church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents
died and he was only 10 years old. He went to go stay with his older
brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at
Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph was a professional organist, and
continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as
well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement,
Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern
Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage.

     A master of several instruments while still in his teens,
Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a
"lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he
took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later
posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other
musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues
the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes
during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach became fed
up with the lousy musical standards of Arnstadt (and the working
conditions) and moved on to another organist job, this time at the
St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his
cousin Maria Barbara Bach.
     Again caught up in a running conflict between factions of his
church, Bach fled to Weimar after one year in Muhlhausen. In
Weimar, he assumed the post of organist and concertmaster in the
ducal chapel. He remained in Weimar for nine years, and there he
composed his first wave of major works, including organ
showpieces and cantatas.
     By this stage in his life, Bach had developed a reputation as a
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