{"id":50713,"date":"2024-12-11T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7931d78e-0b61-48c5-9554-7e0384982492"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:09:21","slug":"johann-sebastian-bach-the-baroque-innovator-who-changed-the-sound-of-classical-music-forever","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/johann-sebastian-bach-the-baroque-innovator-who-changed-the-sound-of-classical-music-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Johann Sebastian Bach: the Baroque innovator who changed the sound of classical music forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685\u20131750) is one of the most celebrated composers in Western music history, renowned for his profound influence on both his contemporaries and on countless future generations of musicians. A composer and virtuoso organist of the Baroque<\/a><\/strong> era, Bach’s music is admired for its technical mastery, emotional depth, and intellectual brilliance.<\/p>

<\/div> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-was-johann-sebastian-bach\">Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?<\/h2> <p>Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, active during the first half of the 18th century during the later Baroque era of classical music. He is one of the most important composers in the history of classical music.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/best-german-composers\">From Bach to Hans Zimmer: the best German composers of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <p>In particular, Bach’s innovative use of counterpoint proved hugely influential in the development of classical music.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-was-bach-born\">When was Bach born?<\/h2> <p>JS Bach was born in 1685, the most talented member of a prodigiously gifted musical family. Aged just nine when his mother died in 1694, Bach found himself an orphan a year later on the death of his father.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-did-bach-grow-up\">Where did Bach grow up?<\/h2> <p>Johann Sebastian Bach was born in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eisenach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eisenach<\/a><\/strong>, in central Germany, the eighth and youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, the director of the town musicians, and Maria Elisabeth L\u00e4mmerhirt. After the death of both of his parents in 1694-95, the 10-year-old Bach moved in with his eldest brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Christoph_Bach_(organist_at_Ohrdruf)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Johann Christoph Bach<\/strong><\/a>, who worked as organist at St. Michael’s Church in nearby Ohrdruf. Later, Bach and a schoolfriend were enrolled in the prestigious St. Michael’s School in L\u00fcneburg.<\/p> <p>Johann Christoph taught his younger brother keyboard playing before sending him north to L\u00fcneburg to continue his education. There, Bach became acquainted with the organist and composer Georg B\u00f6hm. He also heard the great organist Johann Adam Reincken perform at Hamburg, and attended <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/what-instruments-make-up-an-orchestra\">orchestral<\/a><\/strong> music concerts at the nearby court of Celle.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-was-bach-s-first-job\">What was Bach’s first job?<\/h2> <p>By 1703, Bach was a court musician at Weimar, but in that year he accepted an organist\u2019s post at Arnstadt where he disgraced himself with the town council by turning four weeks leave into three months. Bach had occupied his time well, though, travelling to L\u00fcbeck to hear the organ playing of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/dieterich-buxtehude\">Dieterich Buxtehude<\/a><\/strong> and becoming acquainted with his music at first hand.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D. Buxtehude - 'Ach Gott und Herr' BuxWV 177\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUTxIWLL1Fo?list=PLa7DwXF9n16G3EbkcacMakBOqAyfjXHDv\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>He survived Arnstadt for about three and a half years, however, before moving on to M\u00fchlhausen as organist of St Blasius. M\u00fchlhausen proved to be significant since it was here that he produced pieces in a form that we now recognise as being the kernel of his musical output \u2013 the sacred <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-is-a-cantata\">cantata<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <p>In 1708 Bach retraced his footsteps toward the Weimar court to take up duties first as organist, then as <em>Konzertmeister<\/em> (concertmaster). Here he wrote prolifically for the organ, drawing on all he had learned from Buxtehude and other north-German composers, as well as the popular Italian and French styles.<\/p> <p>The music from this era is blessed with great expressive individuality, while also revealing Bach\u2019s awe-inspiring understanding of the instrument for which he was writing. The evidence is found in such pieces as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/discovering-music-passacaglia\">Passacaglia<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/fugue\">Fugue<\/a><\/strong> in C minor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/bachs-orgelbuchlein-guide\/\"><strong><em>Orgelb\u00fcchlein <\/em><\/strong><\/a>(or ‘Little organ book’), designed to educate the fledgling organist.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/best-french-composers-ever\">The greatest French composers of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <li><strong><a class=\"standard-card-new__article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/the-best-recordings-of-js-bachs-orgelbuchlein\/\">The best recordings of JS Bach’s Orgelb\u00fcchlein<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor BWV 582\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVoFLM_BDgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-italian-influences\">Italian influences<\/h3> <p>It was in Weimar, too, that Bach seems first to have encountered Italian <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-concerto\">concertos<\/a><\/strong>, especially the Venetian solo type developed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/antonio-vivaldi\/\">Antonio Vivaldi<\/a><\/strong>. The early fruits of his understanding and interpretation of the forms can be seen not only in the arrangements for solo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/harpsichord-piano\">harpsichord<\/a><\/strong> and organ of concertos by Vivaldi and others, which he made at Weimar, but also in the music of the cantatas which he wrote during the later years of his time there, between 1713 and his departure for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/why-did-bach-go-to-prison\/\">C\u00f6then in 1717<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.S.Bach. Orgelb\u00fcchlein. Michel Chapuis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AK8BwhAvjEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>Three sacred cantatas, in particular, claim our attention for their expression and originality: <em>Christ lag in Todesbanden<\/em> (BWV 4), <em>Ich hatte viel Bek\u00fcmmernis<\/em> (BWV 21), and <em>Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland<\/em> (BWV 61) in which Bach brilliantly combines the French <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-overture\">overture<\/a><\/strong> and Lutheran hymn in the opening chorus. The great secular cantata of this period is a birthday tribute to the Duke of Sachsen-Weissenfels, <em>War mir behagt, ist nur die muntre jagd!<\/em> (BWV 208) with its celebrated <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-aria\/\">aria<\/a><\/strong> \u2018<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/guide-bachs-sheep-may-safely-graze\/\">Schafe K\u00f6nnen sicher weiden\u2019 (Sheep may safely graze).<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-brandenburg-concertos\">The Brandenburg Concertos<\/h2> <p>At C\u00f6then, Bach\u2019s responsibilities were different from those at Weimar. As <em>Kapellmeister<\/em>, his chief concern was the running of Prince Leopold\u2019s court orchestra among whose members from time to time was the musically gifted prince himself, a viola da gamba player. The orchestral cornerstone of Bach\u2019s years at C\u00f6then (1717-23) are the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/best-recordings-js-bachs-brandenburg-concertos\/\"><em>Brandenburg Concertos<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, assembled in response to a \u2018command\u2019 from Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg. Bach\u2019s manuscript of the six concertos is dated 24 March 1721, though the music was composed over a longer period, some of it going back to the Weimar years.<\/p> <p>Among the key works which can be ascribed to the period, however are the Sonatas and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-is-a-partita\/\">Partitas<\/a><\/strong> for unaccompanied <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/violin-guide\">violin<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-suite\/\">Suites<\/a><\/strong> for solo cello, six Sonatas for violin and harpsichord and several collections for solo harpsichord, notably Book 1 of the \u201848\u2019.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J. S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NCPM8DEsvmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-was-bach-married-to\">Who was Bach married to?<\/h2> <p>Bach\u2019s seemingly contented life at C\u00f6then was clouded by two events. First came the death of his wife, Maria Barbara in 1719. Then, late in 1721, just after his second marriage to Anna Magdalena Wilcke, the Prince himself married but, alas for Bach, chose a consort who showed no interest in music. The creative friendship between composer and prince was terminated and Bach sought work elsewhere.<\/p> <p>In 1722 he applied for the position of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and after much shilly-shallying \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/five-facts-about-composer-georg-philipp-telemann\">Georg Philipp Telemann<\/a><\/strong> and Christoph Graupner were the preferred candidates \u2013 he was formally appointed to the post in April 1723.<\/p> <p>As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/thomaskirche-in-leipzig-and-bach-history\/\">Kantor of St Thomas\u2019s Church<\/a><\/strong> and Leipzig\u2019s \u2018Director Musices\u2019, Bach was responsible both for the music of the city\u2019s four principal churches and for providing pieces for civic occasions.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"\/> <p>Between 1723 and 1729, he composed not only three complete annual cycles of sacred cantatas for the church year, but also his two great accounts of the Passion of Christ: the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/st-john-passion-bach\"><em>St John<\/em> <em>Passion<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (1724) and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/guide-js-bach-st-matthew-passion-best-recordings\">St Matthew Passion<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>(1727). Most of the cantatas were entirely new works, and almost all containing music of striking originality that may justly be placed on a level with the Passions, the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/js-bachs-christmas-oratorio\">Christmas Oratorio<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/a-guide-to-bachs-mass-in-b-minor-and-its-best-recordings\">B minor Mass<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/how-mendelssohn-helped-bring-bachs-st-matthew-passion-back-to-life\">How Mendelssohn brought the St Matthew Passion back to life<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/christmas-classical-music-the-best-festive-pieces-of-all-time\">Christmas classical music: the best festive pieces of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St Matthew Passion, Final Chorus, J.S. Bach\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-miQ6_FTtN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-coffee-cantata\">The <em>Coffee <\/em>Cantata<\/h3> <p>By the end of the 1720s, Bach was in conflict with the Leipzig authorities, who reprimanded him for not carrying out his duties to the letter. From then, Bach made a deliberate move to diversify his activities. In 1729 he became director of a Leipzig \u2018collegium musicum\u2019, consisting mainly of students but which also included professional musicians. Bach enjoyed his connection with the society, which lasted in to the 1740s, providing it with harpsichord concertos and secular cantatas, including the celebrated <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/bach-s-caffeine-based-love-affair\/\"><em>Coffee<\/em> Cantata<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Johann Sebastian Bach - "Coffee Cantata" BWV 211 (English Subtitles)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nifUBDgPhl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>In addition, Bach remained active during the last 20 years of his life – composing, compiling and revising his music, giving organ recitals, and advising on the construction of keyboard instruments. The products of this concluding period are dominated by the Mass in B minor, the <em>Goldberg<\/em> Variations for harpsichord (1741 or 1742), the <em>Musical Offering<\/em> and the <em>Art of Fugue<\/em>.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-are-bach-s-best-known-works\">What are Bach’s best known works?<\/h2> <p>Bach is best known for his orchestral music, including the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites. He also composed some much-loved concertos, including two Violin Concertos and a Concerto for Two Violins (commonly known as the Bach Double Concerto).<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/best-violin-concertos\">The greatest violin concertos of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <p>Other important instrumental compositions include the <strong><a title=\"Cello Suites (Bach)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/js-bach-cello-suites\/\">Cello Suites<\/a><\/strong>, for solo cello; keyboard works such as the <em><strong><a title=\"Goldberg Variations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/the-best-recordings-of-js-bachs-goldberg-variations\/\">Goldberg<\/a><\/strong><\/em><i><a title=\"Goldberg Variations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goldberg_Variations\"><strong> Variations<\/strong><\/a><\/i> and <i><a title=\"The Well-Tempered Clavier\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/best-recordings-js-bachs-well-tempered-clavier\/\"><strong>The Well-Tempered Clavier<\/strong><\/a><\/i>; organ works such as the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schubler_Chorales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sch\u00fcbler Chorales<\/strong><\/a><\/i> and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the <i>St Matthew Passion<\/i> and the Mass in B minor.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/five-essential-works-js-bach\/\">Best of Bach: five essential works<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glenn Gould Plays Bach : Goldberg Variation #5\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9EociNekTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-bach-s-greatest-piece\">What is Bach’s greatest piece?<\/h2> <p>The Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Violin Concertos, the Cello Suites, the B Minor Mass: among so much incredible music, it’s impossible to pick a favourite. Your answer will be a personal one. We can say that all the works above, and very much more Bach besides, are worth getting to know.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hilary Hahn plays J.S.Bach Violin Concerto No.1 in a minor BWV1041-Deutsche Kammerphil. Bremen\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3-5144TaYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-did-bach-die\">When did Bach die?<\/h2> <p>Bach died on 28 July 1750, after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/who-blinded-bach\">undergoing eye surgery<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-was-bach-s-greatest-accomplishment\">What was Bach’s greatest accomplishment?<\/h2> <p>This is quite a tough question to answer, as Johann Sebastian Bach’s contributions to classical (or Baroque) music were so huge. 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