Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Eisenach
Town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located 50 km west of Erfurt, 70 km southeast of Kassel and 150 km northeast of Frankfurt.
In 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born here.
Mühlhausen
City in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, 5 km north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, 50 km north-west of Erfurt, 65 km east of Kassel and 50 km south-east of Göttingen.
Johann Sebastian Bach worked as the city's organist in 1707–08.
Thuringia
State of Germany.
Thuringia was favoured or was the birthplace of three key intellectuals and leaders in the arts: Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Friedrich Schiller.
Bach cantata
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: Bachkantaten), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost.
Chamber music
Form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, can be played on a keyboard instrument (harpsichord or organ) or by a string quartet or a string orchestra.
Cantor (Christianity)
Chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, with responsibilities for the choir and the preparation of the Mass or worship service.
Johann Sebastian Bach (Thomaskantor in Leipzig) and Georg Philipp Telemann (Hamburg) were among the famous musicians employed under this system.
St. Thomas School, Leipzig
Co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.
Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.
Bach family
The Bach family refers to several notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
Counterpoint
Relationship between two or more musical lines which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.
Bach's 3-part Invention in F minor combines three independent melodies: