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Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was born in Eisenach, Germany. Bach is considered by many as the greatest composer. Bach was a master of the contrapuntal technique and his music marks the culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
Bach received his first musical instruction from his father, Johann Ambrosius. After the death of his father Johann studied with his elder brother, Johann Christoph, who was an organist in Ohrdruf.

Chorister at Luneburg

At the age of 15 Johann Sebastian Bach became a chorister at Luneburg and at the age of 19 he became organist in Arnstadt.
Johann Sebastian Bach spent the height of his working life in a Lutheran church position in Leipzig, as both organist and music director. Many of his compositions are religious. Bach's frequent tours had procured his reputation as the greatest organist of his time. He was able to understand and use every resource of musical language that was available in the baroque era.

Anna Magdalena Wilkens

Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. In 1707 he married Maria Barbara Bach. She was a second cousin. Bach's first wife died in 1720.
The next year he married Anna Magdalena Wilkens, who was a soprano singer.

Brandenburg Concertos

Bach's sight began to fail in the last year of his life. Johann Sebastian Bach died on July 28, 1750, after undergoing an unsuccessful eye operation.
His work includes over 200 church cantatas, the Easter and Christmas oratorios and two Passions of St. Mathew and St. John. His orchestral music includes his six Brandenburg Concertos and other concertos for clavier and for violin.