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4 dni temu · Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
28 cze 2024 · Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque era and member of a large family of north German musicians. He was later regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for such pieces as the Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier.
17 cze 2024 · Brahms remains at the top of my list of beloved composers – along with Bach, of course. Two of their choral works stand out for me: Brahms’s A German Requiem ( the 1961 Klemperer recording on EMI ), and Bach’s Mass in B Minor ( the 1996 Herreweghe recording on Harmonia Mundi). Both feature regularly in my listening.
18 cze 2024 · His duties were light and allowed him much time for composition. It was also during his time at Arnstadt that Bach made his famous journeys to Lübeck, 250 miles away, to hear the great organ master Dietrich Buxtehude.
13 cze 2024 · When BBC Music Magazine asked 174 leading contemporary classical composers to name the best classical composers of all time, Bach unsurprisingly took the top spot: “All hail JS Bach, whose spirit dwells in practically every note written since his death.
28 cze 2024 · Among the biographical and critical works on Bach, the most important was the monumental study Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 vol. (1873–80), by the German musicologist Philipp Spitta, covering not only Bach’s life and works but also a good deal of the historical background.
17 cze 2024 · So it’s not hard to imagine Bach at Zimmermann’s giving the downbeat to put the new instrument through its paces in one of his own harpsichord concertos. Music Played in Today's Program. J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Harpsichord Concerto No. 4; Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord; Leonhardt Consort; Telefunken 97452. On This Day. Births.
