The life of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach was not particularly glorified during his life. He is almost forgotten in the first fifty years after his death. But today he is widely acknowledged as one of the two or three greatest composers of all time, and according to some - as the greatest. Bach was born on 21 March 1685 in the German city of Eisenbach in a musician environment. His father was a very good violinist, two of his grandparents - talented composers, and a few of his nephews are highly respected musicians. The family tree has 53 relatives who have dedicated their lives to music. Bach studied violin with his father and organ with his older brother Johan Christoph. Bach's mother dies when he is nine years old, and in ten years the future composer is already a circular orphan. As a teenager he receives a scholarship for the St. Michael's Music School in Lüneburg, which is partly due to his good voice, partly because he is materially in need. He graduated in 1702 and the following year he became a violinist in a chamber orchestra. The next twenty years occupied a variety of positions. In Life, Bach is mostly known as a superior organ, though he is also a composer, a lecturer and a conductor. In 1723, when he was thirty-eight, he managed to act as a psalm in the Leipzig Church of St Thomas and stayed there for the rest of his life. He died on July 28, 1750.

Although he always enjoyed a good fortune and managed to support his family, the composer is far from as famous as Mozart or Beethoven, List or Chopin. Not all of his employers have recognized his genius. In Leipzig, the city council wanted to hire a "first-class musician" and only because the counselors failed to persuade their first two elected representatives, reluctantly offered Bach's place ... But then, a few years before, the Weimar duke did not want to release him as an organist and concertmaster out of his yard for arresting him. At twenty-two, Bach married his second cousin. They gave birth to seven children, but his wife died when he was thirty-five. Next year he marries again, and his second wife not only helps raise the rest of the living four children, but gives him another thirteen. Only nine of Bach's children outnumbered it, and four of them become talented and famous musicians. Bach has approximately 300 cantatas, a composition of 48 joints and preludes, at least 140 other preludes, more than 100 compositions for the harpsichord, 23 concerts, 4 overtures, 5 messes, 3 oratories and many other plays. He has created more than 800 serious pieces of music.

Deeply religious, Bach is a lutherian. He wanted his music to serve the church, and most of his works are religious music. He does not try to discover new musical forms but brings the existing to perfection. The greatest musicians of that time - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - appreciate Bach's genius. In the last years of his life, the composer is blind, but he continues to work as dictating the notes of his relatives who record them. His latest work is Art of the Joint, a cycle containing 14 joints and 4 canons on a theme, and summarizes his vast knowledge of polyphony. Bach died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750, at 65. After his death, his enormous musical heritage is forgotten. The interest in his work was "revived" in the 19th century. The beginnings of the Berlin-based performance by the German composer, conductor and pianist Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdi in Berlin in 1889 performed in front of the audience of the vocal-instrumental work Mattheus Passion.