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He was a musical genius with thousands of musical compositions written in his lifetime. He spent his life in Germany, primarily Leipzig, and worked at a school for the city. He isconsidered to be one of the greatest musical composers, and composed till the day he died. Anunruly youth who greatly disliked authority, he had a strong will and mind of his own. Wellliked with many friends, yet no one really knew his inner workings, or how he thought. Of thethousands of musical pieces he composed, few were published in his life. This was a man whocomposed in great numbers, had reasons for doing so, and lived a rather simple, middle class Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S.) was born March 21st 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. Hisfather was Johann Ambrosius, a court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and the director of themusicians of the town of Eisenach. His family had been well known for many generations as a He started school when he was eight and when he was nine he was sent to live with hisolder brother. His parents had died after losing two other children, a son a
The Council decided to be lenient with him until he refused to workwith the boys’ choir and was found to have a complaint against him for entertaining a youngwoman in the organ loft of the church. He would have been thrown out except for the help of afriend who had ties and had some strings pulled to keep Bach employed. Bachalways had a reason for composing the pieces he did. Even Debussy made the observation: “We shallseek in vain for one fault in taste in all that amount of work. Bach has created a huge multitude of musical compositions. Bach and his wife moved to the small town of Weimar. In December 1721, Bach remarried a soprano, Anna Magdalena. He went on many out of town tripsand left one of his students in charge each time. A week after Bach was married his master, Prince Leopold also was married. Unfortunately few of their children lived to become adults.
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