Johann Sebastian Bach
| Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer of classical music during the Baroque period. He was the son of freemason Johann Ambrosius Bach. His brother Johann Christoph Bach studied under Johann Pachelbel. He was influenced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Antonio Vivaldi. He worked for Johann Ernst III (married to House of Hesse), Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen (married to House of Nassau) and the Lutheran Protestant Church (program Christianity) in Thuringia. From 1708 he moved to Weimar. |  |
In 1721 he composed the Brandenburg Concertos for Christian of Brandenburg (House of Hohenzollern-Glücksburg).
In 1727 he composed the St Matthew Passion. In 1741 he composed the Goldberg Variations. He worked at the St Thomas School (also the school of Richard Wagner) in Leipzig.
His son Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach was also a composer and was supported by mason Frederick the Great.
He was promoted by Daniel Itzig. Through the performance of Felix Mendelssohn (grandson of Moses Mendelssohn), Bach became more widely known.
Columbia Records signed a contract with Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (Alberto Guerrera as teacher) for his Bach: the Goldberg Variations albums. Wendy Carlos (Columbia University, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange) popularised Bach through her Moog interpretation.
born 3/31/1685.
died 7/28/1750.