Bach's compositions were often tailored to his employment, such as organ music when he was an organist and instrumental music at Cothen where church music was unnecessary due to Pietist leanings.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Johann Sebastian Bach's music represents the culmination of the Baroque era, synthesizing Italian melodic invention, French rhythmic dance forms, and German contrapuntal mastery.
Composer Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685 and was educated primarily by his eldest brother after his parents' early deaths.
Composer Biography
Bach's career began at age eighteen, serving first as a court musician at Weimar before becoming organist and chamber musician to Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar.
Composition History
In Leipzig, Bach began work on his Clavierubung, adopting the title from Johann Kuhnau, a predecessor in Leipzig.
Compositional Technique
The Fugue in E flat Major, BWV 552, is known in English as the St. Anne Fugue due to the similarity of its subject to a well-known Anglican hymn-tune of that name.
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