"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." - Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. Many consider him to be the greatest composer who ever lived. He was was from a very musical family, and was known to be feisty and stubborn, even as a child. Once got into terrible trouble with his older brother because he had found out J.S. had been raiding his brother's locked cabinet at night to copy (and secretly learn) a challenging piece of music that his brother had forbidden him because of its difficulty.
J.S. Bach would work very hard his whole life long composing music which at one had reached one cantata per week! (Cantatas were used as sermons in church services) Bach had also been given the job of teaching Latin to the schoolboys (in addition to composing and training the choirs), but he scraped together money to pay someone else to do this. For a beautiful excerpt of Bach's Dona Nobis Pacem (Give us Peace), click the button below.
Christian Century: Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach Biography
Bach's Dona Nobis Pachem
Bach Quotes
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