Johann Sebastian Bach

By Marialara2

  • The born

    He was born in Eisenach, Turingia in 1685.

  • The beginning

    At the age of 10, when his parents dead, he went to live with his older brother in Ohrdruf. There, he studied and interpreted music, and then, he started to play the organo and the clavichord.

  • Became famous

    After he ends his studies, he got a job: be a musician of the court in Johann Ernst III's chapel. With this happend, he became a famous keyboardist.

  • Raise his career

    He wanted to raise his career as a musician. They offers him a job better paid: to be the organist at St. Blasius's church, in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, an important city of the north. These incuded a good chorus that accompained him.

  • 1st marriage

    He married Maria Barbara Bach, his cousin in 2nd grade. With her, he had 7 children.

  • Back to Weimar

    After 2 years, he went to work to the city of Weimar, again. he was ther the concertino, the soloist of the violin players. There, ha had the great oportunity to work with proffesional musicians.
    In this period, he wrote important compositions, like The Well-Tempered Clavier.

  • The most important period

    Brandenburg concertosThe prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, hired Bach with the workstation of the Kapellmeister. He apperciated his talent, so he paid good quantity of money to Bach. In thise period, he wrote Brandenburg concertos.

  • In honor of...

    J. S. Bach Giga Partita #2 for Violin Solo BWV 1004.
    In this year, Maria Barbara Bach died all of a sudden when the composer was in a travel with Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.
    In her honor, he wrote the Giga Partita #2 for Violin Solo BWV 1004.

  • Famous composer

    That year, they offers him a prestigious workstation in St. Thomas Lutheran church in Leipzig. This work was to be a chantor. This was the first state job.

  • New compositions

    In this period, he wrote 5 cycles of annual cantatas in the 6 first years living in Leipzig. All that compositions are played in masses.

  • Now, in the monarchy

    Bach was hired by the monarchists, specially the Myor in this period, Gottlieb Lange. In this period, Bach was requiered with several liabilities.

  • A professor

    Now, he obtained a job in St. Thomas's School. This job consist in teach cantus and Latin to the students, and provide with music St.Thomas and St Nicholas' churches.

  • Looking for Händel

    He always wanted to meet Händel. Bach said about him that Händel was a genius in music. He admired Händel's compositions, but because of misunderstandings, they never met each other.

  • A guest in the court's monarchy

    He was a guest in Frederick the Great's court, where one of his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel, was the harpsichordist of the court.

  • His dead

    He died at the age of 65 years. The cause of death was a stroke after a surgery in an eye with bad results.