Johann sebastian bach (German: johann sebastian bach,1March 3, 6851~1July 28, 750) was a composer, organ, violin and harpsichord player in the Baroque period, and also a master of Baroque music. It is generally believed that he is one of the most important composers in the history of music, and he is honored as "the father of modern western music". He is also one of the most important figures in the history of western culture. As famous as Mozart and Beethoven.

Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenacher, the Holy Roman Empire, and received music education since childhood. After his parents died, Bach moved to Aldrov to be raised by his eldest brother and lived in poverty. 15 years old, went to Luneburg to study and stand on her own feet. After graduation, Bach worked as an organist in Arnstadt and Milger. Later, Bach served as the court music director of Weimar and Kelten and the church music director of Leipzig.

Bach was prolific all his life, and his works are famous for their good quality. Besides opera, he dabbled in almost all kinds of music at that time, including oratorios, passions, dramas, classics, mass, hymns, solos, suites, chamber music and concertos of various instruments, and so on. Although Bach did not create a new style, his works widely absorbed the musical techniques of Germany, Italy and France, and presented them with skillful polyphony skills, showing the essence and profound thoughts of Baroque music style.

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Bach's works are profound, tragic, broad and restrained, and full of the breath of real life in Germany in the first half of the18th century. He believes in religion and Lutheranism. He hopes that his music can serve the church. Most of his works are religious music. His music embodies the thoughts of ordinary German citizens living in18th century.

Bach's works have certain philosophical and ethical significance, but his forms of expression are not abstract and dogmatic. On the contrary, in his works, philosophical ethics is closely combined with lyric and landscape writing. Although he doesn't use modeling techniques as often as Handel does,

However, in order to contrast some inner feelings, Bach also inevitably resorted to the description of natural scenery (such as wind blowing and rivers). The indirectness of Bach's music content determines the activity and comprehensiveness of his music style. There is no obvious difference between Bach's vocal music style and instrumental music style. He created a new style of combining vocal music and instrumental music.

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