Johann Sebastian Bach is a very famous musician. Lots of spin songs sung by a group of renowned choirs. The donations Bach to the music incorporates many details of the various musical styles of Germany, France and Italy during the last years Baroque era. Fame in the history of literature organ, choir, cantata and oratorio, very great relationship with the Lutheran liturgy, and his works are known for their large number and high skill of its creator.
For nearly two centuries Bach family is active in the music world. With 20 people from his lineage known as a musician, this family like a musical dynasty. Johann Sebastian, with his sons Karl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Fredemann, is a group of the most well known and appeared more recently in its history. Karl Philipp Emanuel (1717-1788) was the son of the 2nd of J.S. Bach is known through experiments with the Classical era sonata which at that time just beginning to emerge. Johann Christian (1735-1782), son of the 11th, known as the "Bach of London" and write various symphony, concerto and music for voice and Chamber. Wilhelm Fredemann, known as "Bach Halle", is the eldest child and write a symphony as well as works for piano and dance.
Bach interest to the order and connection in the spin-his composition is an important part of the late Baroque art. Many of his works are united by principles:
a. liturgical meaning,
b. usability choir,
c. the structure of the over-arching key, or
d. special techniques such as prelude / fugue pairs, dance patterns and canon or variation cycles.
Many of his works are grouped by categories that are educational or didactic rules more like a suite or series arranged liturgically.
J.S. Bach wrote four short mass which consisted mostly of musical cantata with texts that have been rewritten. Examples: Mass in F using choral Lutheran Litany "Christ, Thou Lamb of God" in the "Kyrie", while the "Gloria" uses material from the cantata and Mass others in A major, G minor and G major, also using the same technique , Mass in B Minor is one of the choral works of the most famous. This Catholic work is known for its five-voice texture and repetition of themes intergratif. This Mass is also the result largely borrowed from Bach cantata, but the important part is also original. Cantata found therein including numbers 1,46, 12 and 171.
In 1706, Bach was married to her cousin, Maria Barbara Bach. The couple had seven children, three of whom died as an infant. When the middle Bach was traveling with Prince Leopold in 1720, Maria suddenly died. A year later, Bach married a soprano named Anna Magdalena Wülcken who was 17 years younger than him. They had 13 children, but only six of those who survived to adulthood.
Children's music artist Bach blood inherit from his father and grandfather them. Most of their children to follow the footsteps of Bach as a musician and a great composer. Two children from his first marriage, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, became important composers in the music world. While the kids from his second marriage, Gottfried Heinrich, Johann Christoph Friedrich and Johann Christian, also became influential musicians in the world of music.
During his life, Bach is better known as an organist rather than a composer. In music, he is an expert in implementing and maintaining different emotions. He is also an expert storyteller who often uses the melody to suggest an action or event. In his later works, Bach attract different musical styles from all over Europe, including France and Italy. The composition of Bach's music is still admired by those who follow in his footsteps, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. His reputation received a major award in 1829, when the German composer Felix Mendelssohn reintroduced Bach's "Passion According to St. Matthew."
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