Unlike his contemporary GF Handel, Bach was a “homebody” in that he seldom traveled far from his workplaces. It seemed he could play anything, and improvise whenever called upon. His widow even found manuscripts being used after his death to wrap fish at the local market.Įven with numerous compositions, he was best known in his lifetime for his virtuoso organ playing. Unfortunately, many of his works have been lost over the years. He wrote an incredibly large body of compositions that covered all the forms, instruments, and styles of his day, including cantatas, oratorios, passions, masses, and chorales for the church orchestral concertos and suites, concertos, keyboard works for clavier, harpsichord, and organ and solo and chamber works for all sorts of various instruments. Bach was born in 1685 into a quite renowned musical family, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that he spent his 65 years as an organist, choir director, and composer, nor that several of his children became fine musicians themselves. Music Bach, Mass in B Minor (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, cond.
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