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May 27, 2024 · Bach no doubt wanted his surviving children to have a mother figure. On 3 December 1721, they got one when he married Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a singer from a musical family. Anna Magdalena was relatively young compared to Johann: she had just turned twenty, and he was thirty-six.
May 27, 2024 · Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque era and member of a large family of north German musicians. He was later regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for such pieces as the Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier. Read more about Bach’s life and career.
May 23, 2024 · Bach’s organ works—more than 250 chorale settings and free pieces—were preserved as precious relics by his sons and students after his death. Filled with bold, dramatic passages and fully independent pedal parts, they represent the most important body of music in the organ repertoire and the only genre that Bach turned to continuously ...
May 15, 2024 · The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. The BCW contains for most works: detailed discographies, discussions, texts and translations, scores, commentaries, references, music examples...
4 days ago · Organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach refers to the compositions in the seventh chapter of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV, catalogue of Bach's compositions), [1] or, in the New Bach Edition, the compositions in Series IV.
May 23, 2024 · 282–308. Published: May 2024. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Chapter 11 is devoted to the small chorale settings Bach composed in Weimar—miscellaneous manual works, chorale fughettas, and pieces earmarked for the accompaniment of congregational hymns: figured-bass and interlude settings.
May 23, 2024 · Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. The initial efforts of the young Johann Sebastian Bach—the organ works he produced before taking up his position in Arnstadt in the summer of 1703—reveal a composer who was not a prodigy in the Mozartian sense, able to write suave, urbane works at an early age.
