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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750. Researched and created by Sarah Ivie. Picture of later life. Birth and beginning of Bach.

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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

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  1. Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750 Researched and created by Sarah Ivie

  2. Picture of later life

  3. Birth and beginning of Bach • Prior to Bach birth, his family was well known German musician family during the 17th-18th century. The families excelling music involvement and accomplishments were known for more than 100 years. • Bach was the youngest of eight. Born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, a city of Thuringia. During the Baroque Ages where music was center of life. • His father , Johann Ambrosius was director of musical services for the city.

  4. Childhood The family hosted numerous musical concerts in their home. His father playing violin or trumpet while his uncles played the keyboard or organ. With in few months and by the age 10 , both Bach parent died and he moved in with his older brother. Johann Christoph was a organist in near by town, Ohrudf. Bach sang in school choir and studied the organ taught by his other brother.

  5. Childhood to adolescence • While living with his brother, Bach contributed towards family finances by earning money during singing. • After 4 years, Bach moved to Luneburg to advance studies and spent great deal time listening to a variety of music. Thus allowing to learn diversity of musical styles on both sacred and theatrical.

  6. adolescence • At 18, Bach astounded audiences and received a position as organist. He was nitrous for modifying the traditional Lutheran hymns Organists Contract: Salary which included room and board, automatic deduction for hospital, church offerings and local taxes. Responsibility included: play for church on Sunday, play choir practice on Monday and thrusday, take proper care for instruments also preparation of church music involving choir members and instrumental mentalists. • At 20, Bach went to study with Danish organist. Bach was approved for 1 month although he spent 4 months, once returned he was reprimanded.

  7. Earlier picture of Johann Sebastian Bach

  8. Adulthood Bach moved to Muhlausen, obtaining Organist position in June that same year. • Bach married Maria Barbara Bach, having the ceremony on Oct. 17 1707. • Bach developed interest with composing vocal music. At 22, Bach first cantatas was performed on Feb. 4 1708. • After 1 year of Organist position, Bach’s great reputation grew him ambitious to find something more satisficing. Bach although keep a good working/ personal relationships with the pastor of the church.

  9. adulthood • In Weimar, Bach completed numerous jobs -Organist/ member of orchestra -making various organ transcriptions of Italian material Bach combined earlier style with northern German/ French influences making unique and new development in music. 1713, Bach preformed organ concerts, preformed cantatas and was notorious for locking himself in room to write cantatas. • Bach by 1714, had numerous children. Throughout Bach life, he pushed for the improvement of organs.

  10. Adulthood • Bach dramatically changed positions by abruptly stopping productions of cantatas. • Although, great impression on Leopold von Anhalt-Kothen, Bach received new position. • Bach previous employer refused to let him leave, instead arrested Bach for a month prior to leaving. Bach received “without honor” discharge • Work in Weimar: great number of cantatas, most major organ compositions, started harpsichord compositions

  11. Bach Family

  12. Adult hood • In Kothen 1717-1723 Started new position, Kapellmeister -Bach wrote lots of chamber music -Bach wife died and buried on July 7 which left 4 children to fend for. -Bach remarried co-worker, Anna Magdalena on December 3 1721 -Bach received position to become successor of Leipzig cantor. -Bach continue to look for position that allowed connections for educational needs for his children.

  13. Adulthood • In Leipzig 1723-1750 • Bach audition for a Saint Thomas school positions and on may 5 1723 signed a contract. It is believed by some, “Bach's cantata in the 1720s is one of the most astonishing creative explosions in the history of Western music, even if one considers that Baroque composers were extremely productive in general.” work cited #3 • Bach job required to teach Italian to schoolboys and train the singers. Bach was dissatisfied and his pay was lower than other positions. His family situation was not any better at this time in his life neither. • On the side, Bach participated as director of music society. This allow Bach to make more concert music and cantatas

  14. Adulthood Being seen as the beginning of bourgeois concert life was when the two music societies merged into one; (Becoming the basis of the later Gewandhaus orchestra tradition). Bach performed his own harpsichord concertos at regular performances. Bach composed a small number of church cantatas and oratorios, in 1735 his production slowed down to almost halt. The production of secular cantatas went on till at least 1742. Most of these cantatas were homage cantatas for important persons or works for festive occasions (created by Bach on demand).

  15. later life • Bach really had become a dealer of books and music and he even occupied himself with the rental of musical instruments. In the 1740s, he also sold Silbermann fortepianos • Bach had been appointed court Chapel mister and composer in Dresden in 1736 • Bach put only minimal energy into his cantor function and withdrew more and more to devote himself to projects of his own choice, particularly his instrumental monothematic cyclic works • Bach began a family genealogy, which traced the family tradition back to 16th century. People believe Bach during these years was very evident self-consciousness and a growing concern about his position in history. His work during this time assists that belief. Bach had been publishing his keyboard partitas since 1726, and in 1731.

  16. Photo of Bach in Later years

  17. Later life • Bach became the center of a circle of a growing number of students leading to a kind of historical reflection. Bach was attacked in 1737 and accused of an old-fashioned, unnatural and overly learned style of composition. In spite of this, Bach clearly underwent a certain influence of the new style in his later works. • Bach finished his great B Minor Mass in 1749. More Likely, he was not active in his function as cantor • Bach was practically blind due to cataracts at the end of his life. Early in 1750, he was hit by a stroke. He died on July 28, 1750. According to recent medical interpretations of Bach's symptoms in the last period of his life, he probably suffered and died from diabetes mellitus.

  18. Map of Bach travels and copy of Bach concert brochure.

  19. Work Cited Bach, Great Composers. Producer and director: James Runcie. Kultur international films, ltd. Motion picture Jan Koster and Jan Hanford. “J. S. Bach home page”. 1995-2012. http//:www.jsback.org Catucci, Stefano. Bach and Baroque music. Hauppauge, NY 1998

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