Bach works biography

The exam in musical literature 1. The life and work of I. for creative life, he composed more than a thousand works that are still popular among lovers of classical music. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21 in Eisenah, a small Turing town in Germany, where his father served as a city musician, and his uncle was an organist. Their whole family was musical. From early childhood, the boy began to study the violin and organ, sang perfectly and was accepted into the church choir.

A happy childhood ended for him at the age of nine, when he lost his mother, and after a while his father. The orphan was taken into his modest house as an elder brother, an organist in the near Ordruf; There, the boy went to school again and continued music with his brother. In the Orderf, Johann Sebastian spent 5 years. When he turned fifteen, Bach continued his education in Luneburg in North Germany.

There he lived in a full board, received a small scholarship, studied and sang in the choir of school. It was a very important stage in the formation of Johann Sebastian. Here he met the best samples of choral literature. At the age of 17, Bach moved to Arnstadt. He married Maria Barbar Bach, a relative. He went to the city of Lubeck to attend the famous "evening concerts" of a brilliant organist and composer Dietrich Buasthuda.

Obviously, in Lubeck it was so interesting that Bach spent four months there instead of four weeks, which he asked as a vacation. The troubles were followed, and Bach and his family moved to Weimar. The Weimar period is very important in the life and work of Bach. Bach served as an organist, and C was a dropmaster. In Weimar, Bach reaches the heights of skill as a virtuoso organist and composer, and thanks to numerous trips in Germany, his fame spread far beyond the duchy of Weimar.

His reputation was facilitated by an attempt to compete with the French organist Louis Marshan. Contemporaries say that Marshan did not dare to speak to the public who was looking forward to the competition, and hurriedly left the city, recognizing the superiority of the opponent. One of the most famous Bakho works in the world - the organ of Tokkata and Fuga Reh Minor - was written in Weimar.

Keten period. In Bach, he became a capter at the Duke of Anhalt-Ketensky, who offered him more honorable and favorable conditions. At first, the former owner did not want to let him go and even put under his arrest for “too stubborn requests for dismissal”, but then he still allowed Bach to leave Weimar. In Keten, the composer focused on instrumental genres: the well-tempered clavier of the 1st volume, sonatas and suits for violin and cello solo, as well as six Brandenburg concerts dedicated to Margrafer Brandenburg.

The Kyeten prince, the very excellent musician, highly appreciated his dropmaster, and the time spent in this city is one of the happiest periods in the life of Bach. But in June, when the composer accompanied the prince on a trip, Maria Barbara suddenly died.

In December next year, the summer widower married summer Anna Magdalen, singer. Anna Magdalena became an excellent assistant to her husband; Her hand is rewritten by many of his scores. She gave birth to Bachu 13 children. In total, Johann Sebastian had 20 children in two marriages, ten of them died in infancy. A profitable cantor vacancy in the famous school of St.

Thomas in Leipzig. Bach, who again wanted to return to church genres, filed a corresponding petition. At a new job, Bach was responsible for the musical part of the services in all Leipzig Protestant churches. In addition to this, he became a teacher of a very respectable school, where he was supposed to teach boys the basics of musical art and prepare them to participate in church services.

Bach diligently performed the duties of the “Muzik-Director”; As for teaching, it was rather tired of the composer, deeply immersed in the world of his own creativity. In Leipzig, Bach wrote a lot of spiritual music: passions according to John, Mass Si Minor, Christmas Oratorio. Soon, the vision of Bach, which he complained for a long time, began to rapidly deteriorate. Almost blinded, he decided to undergo an operation with a one-known English-focus well-known at that time.

Two operations carried out by Charlatan did not bring Bach relief, and the medicines that he had to take finally destroyed his health. Interestingly, during his life, Bach was known less than his sons. The most popular works of Bach are the organ tokkata and Fugue Reh Minor, the scherzo from the suite of Xi Minor.