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Johann Sebastian Bach A Life in Germany James Walters September 2015 3 A Life in Germany ID: 669555

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach

A Life in Germany

James Walters September 2015

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A Life in Germany

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Bach was employed as music director and organist in towns throughout central and eastern Germany. He never left this small area of Europe in the sixty-five years of his life.

Johann Sebastian BachSlide5

Johann Sebastian Bach

Early Life

J

ohann Sebastian Bach was

born in Eisenach, in what is now central Germany, on 31 March 1685. His father was the town’s music director and all of his uncles were professional musicians. Bach studied music with many of them. Among the instruments he played were the organ, harpsichord, violin and viola. Bach left home at the age of ten, after his parents died. He lived in Ohrdruf

, with his older brother, where he studied the scores of some of Europe’s most popular composers. At age fourteen he won a scholarship to study music in Lüneburg for four years.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Trip to

L

übeck

In 1705, Bach wanted to meet and hear the great organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude. Because there was no recording technology at the time, people had to travel to hear musicians or the musicians

had to come to them. Bach had to walk 280 miles each way and was gone for several months. *

His employer was not happy with him when he returned home in 1706.

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*If you walked 280 miles from

Redlands, where might you end up?Slide7

Johann Sebastian Bach

Leipzig

Bach spent the last twenty-seven years of his life in Leipzig. He directed the music at four churches and was in charge of music for official city events. In addition, he taught singing and Latin to the boys of the

Thomasschule. This school was operated by the main church in town, the Thomaskirche. He composed new music for services there, directed the choir and instrumentalists and played the organ. Most of his cantatas were composed in Leipzig during his first three years there.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Leipzig

Bach played this organ in the

Thomaskirche. I enjoyed hearing an organ concert there in the summer of 1992. Sitting in the church where Bach spent so much of his life, listening to his music being performed on the organ he played, was an unforgettable experience.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Thomaskirche

, Leipzig

Bach spent the last twenty-seven years of his life in Leipzig. He directed the music at four churches and was in charge of music for official city events. In addition, he taught singing and Latin to the boys of the Thomasschule. This school was operated by the main church in town, the Thomaskirche. He composed new music for services there, directed the choir and instrumentalists and played the organ. Most of his cantatas were composed in Leipzig during his first three years there.

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1685-1750Slide10

Johann Sebastian Bach

Legacy

Though Bach never left Germany, his music is performed throughout the world every day of the year. In fact, there is probably no musician of any time whose music has touched so many people, even more than 250 years after his death.

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