JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

CHILDHOOD

• After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph.
• Bach did very well at school.
• Johann Christoph was an organist who gave him his first keyboard lesson.

AIR

• https://youtu.be/rrVDATvUitA
• Air on the G String", also known as "Air for G String" and "Celebrated Air", is August Wilhelmj's 1871 (which was the year that it was created)arrangement of the second movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

BADIRERIE

• https://youtu.be/Tv40mcAM1ZA

FUGUE

• https://youtu.be/PhRa3REdozw

BACH AND HIS MUSIC

• Bach composed 1,128 pieces of music.
• He played the violin,contrabass,cello,horn, oboe,bassoon,flute and recorder 7-8 days for all of Bach to be played.

MORE OF BACH MUSIC

• He composed Latin church music.
• Bach was primarily a keyboard player, and was known throughout Europe for his organ playing. In addition to the organ, he played harpsichord and the clavichord.

THE THIRD PAGE OF BACH AND HIS MUSIC

• Bach began his musical career play the violin and the harpsichord under the instruction of his father Johann Ambrosius. His uncle, Johann Christoph Bach, taught him how to play the organ. Bach was a very willing student and soon became extraordinarily capable with playing these instruments.

BACH’S SIBLING PAGE 1

• Bach had 8 siblings I will tell you about them.
• Johann Christoph Bach was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who survived childhood.

BACH’S SIBLINGS PAGE 2

• Johann Jacob Bach was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is thought to have been born in Eisenach. After his studies at the Latin school there, he became oboist in the municipal band.

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• Johann Balthasar Bach
• Born: March 4, 1673 - Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. Died: June 11, 1691 - Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. Johann Balthasar Bach [71] was son of Johann Ambrosius Bach [11]. He was Stadtpfeifer apprentice to his father.

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• Maria Salome Bach was the daughter of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Maria Elisabeth Laemmerhirt and the older sister of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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• When Johanna Juditha Bach was born about 1680, in Eisenach, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany, her father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was 35 and her mother, Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, was 36. She died on 3 May 1686, in Eisenach, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, at the age of 6.

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• When Johann Jonas Bach was born on 5 February 1675, in Eisenach, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany, his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was 29 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, was 30. He died in 1685, in Thüringen, Germany, at the age of 10.

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• When Johann Rudolf Bach was born on 19 January 1670, in Erfurt, Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany, his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was 24 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, was 25. He died on 17 July 1670, in his hometown, at the age of 0.

BACH’S DAD Johann Ambrosius BACH

• Johann Ambrosius Bach was a German musician, father to Johann Sebastian Bach. The son of Christoph Bach, Ambrosius was born in Erfurt, Germany, as the twin brother of Johann Christoph Bach. Ambrosius was employed as a violinist in Erfurt.

BACH MOM

• Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt was the mother of Johann Sebastian Bach. She was a daughter of Valentin Lämmerhirt, a furrier and coachman in Erfurt. On 8 April 1668, she married her friend since childhood, Johann Ambrosius Bach.

BACHS KIDS

• Johann Sebastian Bach had two wives and a total of 20 children. Sadly, only half of those children survived to adulthood. But of those 10, four became notable composers; each with their own story, their own home town and their own relationship with their father's music.

WEBSITES USED

• Bach on Bach.com
• Wikipedia
• YouTube
• Bsolive.com
• Family tree