Composers

Composers J.S. Bach One of the greatest musicians in the Baroque period, Bach was born in the town of Eisenach, Germany. Bach came from a very musically talented family, almost all of its members with churches or town bands for several generations. He was orphaned at the age of 10 and was raised by his older brother, an organist who prepared him musically. Bach amazingly was almost self taught with only a limited help from his brother. At 1703, he held posts as an organist at Arnstadt and was appointed to his first important positon at the age of 23, court organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Weimar. Bach then went to prince of Anhalt – Cothen for 5 years, then moved on to Leipzig to supervise music and train Choristers and wrote music for all church functions at the St. Thomas church. Bach later in his life went blind and fell ill, later he died after finishing the 18 preludes for organ. Bach is considered on eof the greatest religious artists in history; he centered his music on the idea that music must serve the glory of god. He was a virtuoso organist; therefore most of his works music, age, mozart, later, berlioz, career, born, bach, years, time, opera, one, organist, important, however, father, beethoven, works, vienna, town, piano, paris, made, haydn, forms, died, debussy, century, wrote, writing, took, symphony, symphonies, style, st