Composition of organ works, possibly early preludes and fugues BWV 531, 549a, 575 chorales from the Neumeister Collection BWV 1090–95, 1097–1120 chorale partitas BWV 766–68, 770.Īppointment as organist at St.

Travels to Hamburg to hear Reincken at the organ.Īppointment in Weimar for two quarters of a year (at the home of Duke Johann Ernst the elder). 1685īorn in Eisenach on March 21, the son of conductor and court musician Johann Ambrosius Bach.Įnrolls at the lyceum in Ohrdruf, where he will live with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph, after the death of his parents among other things, organist, and pupil of Pachelbel. His later, contrapuntally complex compositions exert an enormous influence on the compositional styles and practices of later generations. Later, as music director in Köthen and for the decades he serves as cantor in Leipzig, he composes chiefly sacred vocal compositions and keyboard works.

As organist in Mühlhausen and Weimar he creates primarily organ compositions, concerti, and works of chamber music. Johan, the Goldberg Variations, the Brandenburg Concerti, or hundreds of singular cantatas. His catalogue of works contains almost 1,100 entries, including the great Passions of St. Except for operas, Bach composed masterpieces for every ensemble and genre of his age. The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 870-893įor many musicians he is “the Alpha and Omega of all music” (Max Reger).

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Bach prelude and fugue in b flat minor