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Title of Paper : J.S. Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach

    Since the dawn of music, there have been many great

composers throughout the world. However, no composer had a

greater impact to music than Johann Sebastian Bach from the

Baroque era (1600 ad. -1750 ad.). Johann Sebastian Bach was a

forefather to music as the author Homer was a forefather Western

literature. Yet, unlike Homer's uses of words and verses in his

literature, J.S. Bach used notes and chords in his music which to him

was an apparatus of worship.

    Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in

Eisenach, Thuringina, into a family that over seven generations

created at least 53 outstanding musicians. He first received musical

training from his father, Johann Ambrosius, a town musician. Stricken

by his father's death at the young age of 10, he went to reside and

study with his older brother, Johann Christoph, an organist in Ohrdruf.

In 1700, Bach began to earn his own living as a chorister at the

Church of Saint Michael in Luneburg. Later in 1703, he became a

violinist in the chamber orchestra at the Church of Prince Ernst of

Weimar, but later moved to Arnstadt, where he became a church

organist. In October 1705, Bach went to Lubeck to study with the

distinguished Danish-born German organist and composer Dietrich

Buxtehude which largely affected Bach. Bach was then criticized for

the new lavish flourishes and bizarre harmonies in his organ

accompanime...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 01-10-2009
Category: English
Words: 950
Pages: 3.8