Today I will be talking about Johann Sebastian Bach and sharing the joys of his music. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach, in what appears to have been the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he also seems to have died in the Holy Roman Empire in 1750, Leipzig. At the time of his birth, many of his family members were musicians, including all of his uncles, this lead to any local musician being jokingly called a ‘Bach’ since the Bach family was so prominent at the time. Since his family was full of musicians, he was able to learn music from a young age, however he lost both of his parents at the age of 10. Bach was also married twice in his life. For some fun facts, Bach has 17 parallel fifths in his corales, only three less than his 20 children.
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During sermons, Bach was accused of going into the church cellar to get wine, many sources have different versions of this story, including him going out to buy wine instead, but I tried to keep this one general. Finally, Bach challenged local keyboard talent Louis Marchand to a keyboard duel in 1717, Marchand fled on the day of the duel to avoid the loss, again, sources differ on the story, some say Marchand fled the night before, other say he walked in, heard Bach warming up, and immediately left, I tried to keep this one general again. Another thing about Bach is what you can call the ‘Musical Food Pyramid’, I was watching a mini-masterclass by bass clarinettist Michael Lowenstern and he talked about this, he said “I encourage all of you to play Bach all the time” … “if there (Bach) was a food group, practice group, it would be on the base where this is a lot of grains, a lot of Bach is good for you”, I …show more content…
Yehudi Menuhin, considered one of the best violinists of the 20th century says it’s “the greatest structure for solo violin that exists”. Joshua Bell who played Carnegie Hall at 17 with the St. Louis Phil says it’s “not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but on the of the greatest achievements of any man in history. It’s a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect.” Johannes Brahms, a very well known composer, you’ve probably heard of him, says ”On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my
During sermons, Bach was accused of going into the church cellar to get wine, many sources have different versions of this story, including him going out to buy wine instead, but I tried to keep this one general. Finally, Bach challenged local keyboard talent Louis Marchand to a keyboard duel in 1717, Marchand fled on the day of the duel to avoid the loss, again, sources differ on the story, some say Marchand fled the night before, other say he walked in, heard Bach warming up, and immediately left, I tried to keep this one general again. Another thing about Bach is what you can call the ‘Musical Food Pyramid’, I was watching a mini-masterclass by bass clarinettist Michael Lowenstern and he talked about this, he said “I encourage all of you to play Bach all the time” … “if there (Bach) was a food group, practice group, it would be on the base where this is a lot of grains, a lot of Bach is good for you”, I …show more content…
Yehudi Menuhin, considered one of the best violinists of the 20th century says it’s “the greatest structure for solo violin that exists”. Joshua Bell who played Carnegie Hall at 17 with the St. Louis Phil says it’s “not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but on the of the greatest achievements of any man in history. It’s a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect.” Johannes Brahms, a very well known composer, you’ve probably heard of him, says ”On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my