Bach Sebastian Biography

Childhood and youth does not work, an outstanding figure of world musical culture began its way in Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31 of the year in a small Turing town of Eisen. At that time, there were about 5 generations of musicians in the family of Bakhs. Therefore, to predict what the young Johann Sebastian was predisposed to from childhood is not difficult.

We’ll run ahead: the children of our hero will continue the family tradition and also connect their life with music. At first, his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was engaged in raising the musical taste of the future composer. In general, it turned out to be easy. From an early age, the boy showed talent. Despite the fact that eight children grew up in the family and our genius was the youngest, the offspring did not experience the lack of attention.

The father of the family worked as the organizer of secular concerts and performed church music. Then, among the nobles, it was fashionable to sponsor the musicians, so that the Bach family did not complain about poverty. The composer's happy childhood ended when he was 10 years old. It is at this age that Johann Sebastian is orphaned. The boy fell under the care of his older brother and part -time church teacher - Johann Christoph, who, in principle, coped well with the role of the parent.

A relative patted and arranged his youngest in the vocal school of St. Michael, where Bach mastered Latin, theology, history, as well as a game on the organ, clavier and other instruments. In addition, Johann Sebastian at night copied the works of other “modern” composers at that time in the notebook. At that time, this was considered rebellion. So to speak, the lesson is not by age.

Therefore, having learned about the deeds of the younger, the elder brother quickly covered the copy shop. At the age of 15, Bach fluttered from under the wing of his brother and began an independent life. He was not able to enter the university because of the lack of finances. But, as we already know, geniuses do not really need higher education. It is enough to look at Danya Milokhin.

Bach possessed a unique memory, he could only listen to the melody once and reproduce it exactly. The composer got his first work in his first job in the town of Gorodok - Luneburg, neighboring from the house. But all this can be considered throwing youth. Bach took a serious position, already being adults. In the year, he got a court violinist in the chapel of the Weimar Duke Johann Ernst.

Despite good working conditions, Bach did not want to stop there. The composer longed for the development of his talent, therefore, at the first opportunity, he went for a distant land to work as a court organist in the Church of St. Boniface in Arnstadt. It was there that Johann Sebastian discovered his creative chakra, so widely that he was almost dismissed.

During his four -week vacation, he went to Lubeck to listen to the melodies of his beloved composer Dietrich Buystehuda, but instead of the due month he stayed there as many as four. So to speak, he heard. Naturally, without catching up from the "employers" there were no, after which Bach, by the way, quit. This is from the series "Not you fired me, I myself left." By the year, the composer was found about the talent in other cities, so it was not difficult to find the next work.

The musician worked on a year in Mülhuzen, settled down in Weimar for 9 years, then he “left” a nickle in Keten and finally settled for almost 30 years in Leipzig. The most outstanding works by Bach can be considered a collection of choral preludes for the organ “Organ Book”, the famous “Brandenburg concerts” and the cycle of the works “well -tempered clavier”. Although all his compositions hear special attention.

He created works in almost all genres known at that time. The only thing that Bach cannot be found is operas. Their composer disliked. About our hero we can say that he was the innovator of his time. The famous composer was married twice. For the first time - on her cousin, Maria Barbara at that time, this is normal. With her, he lived a good 13 years. She gave him 7 children, of which only four survived.

The second wife of Bach was singer Anna Magdalena Wilke. She was able to surpass the first wife of her husband in the number of children and gave him 13 offspring. But only 6 were able to survive the father. At the sunset of his life, the composer found an outlet in the family. 5 years before his death, he almost completely blinded, so relatives helped record new works. Bach tried to cope with vision problems with the help of an ophthalmologist from England by John Taylor.

The doctor performed 2 operations to him. Only the latter for a moment was successful. 10 days before his death, Bach was transmitted, and then died of a blow at the age of 65. In the year, the great composer was buried at the local cemetery in Leipzig. The life of the second wife after the death of her husband was not the best. The older children with whom she dedicated all of herself left her and left her without a livelihood.

Anna died 10 years after Bach in complete poverty. Her body was buried in a nameless grave.But this is not so important, because the memory of her and her brilliant wife will live forever.