Being influenced by local organist, George Böhm, he became a proficient organist and landed his first job as a musician at the Court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar in 1703. However, this didn’t last long as his voice broke, so he switched to playing the violin and harpsichord.
Christoph was a church organist and provided some further musical education and enrolled him at school, where he did well.īach had a beautiful soprano singing voice which earned him a scholarship at St. Sadly, in 1695 when Bach was nine, both his parents died within a year of each other and he went to live with his brother, Johann Christoph. Although Bach’s musical education during his early childhood is not really known for sure, it’s thought his siblings taught him basic music theory after he was introduced to the organ by one of his uncles, and his father may have taught his young son the violin and harpsichord. He hailed from a family of talented musicians stretching back several generations, and his father worked as the town musician. Early lifeīorn in Eisenach, Germany in 1685, Bach was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Back and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. Let’s delve into the fascinating life of Johann Sebastian Bach. Still, his compositions were admired by several prominent composers including Mozart and Beethoven, but it wasn’t until Felix Mendelssohn’s 1829 performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Berlin that there was a renewed interest in Bach’s compositions. Few of his works were published during his lifetime as he was primarily known as a brilliantly talented organist. It goes without saying that Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of the greatest composers of all time, so it’s surprising that his music was considered old-fashioned and didn’t receive the appreciation it deserved while he was alive.
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