5. Violin
Before the age of ten
Bach was being taught
how to play the Violin
Harpsichord and Harpsichord from
his Father.
6. Music was part of The
Bach families DNA!!
He came from a family
that loved music!
A nineteenth century depiction of the
Bach family at morning music practice.
Bach is at the keyboard and the other
family members are playing or singing.
(Left) Bach with three of his sons
7. Bach had a growing reputation as a
great performer, and it was his great
technical skill that landed him the
position of organist at the New
Church in Arnstadt.
In 1707, Bach was glad to leave Arnstadt
for a organist position at the Church of St.
Blaise in Mühlhausen. Which did not turn
out well for Bach.
In 1717, Bach accepted a position with
Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen.
8. Bach’s job required him to
teach the students in
singing and to provide
weekly music. In the two
main Churches in Leipzig.
St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
9. Bach as a young man His mother died in 1694, the following
year after his mother his father passed.
At the age 10 Bach moved in with
his oldest brother Johann Christoph
Bach.
10. Organ sound
→
After his parents deaths his
brother started to teach him
how to play the Organ.
11. In 1707 Bach married Maria
Barbara Bach!! Which was his
second cousin.
Together they had seven
children, four of them
survived to adulthood.
12. 17 Months after Bach’s first
wife passing, He married Anna
Magdalena Wilcke.
Together they raised the children from
the first marriage of Bach’s, and had 13
more children of their own.
*7 of their children passed away at a
young age.
13. “If I decide to be “Music is an
an idiot, then I’ll agreeable harmony
be an idiot on my for the honor of
own accord.” God and the
permissible delights
of the soul.”
“It's easy to play any musical
instrument: all you have to
do is touch the right key at
the right time and the
instrument will play itself.”
16. • Bach became increasingly blind, so
British eye surgeon operated on him
April of 1750.
• July 28th 1750 Bach died at age 65.
• Modern historians speculate that the
cause of death was a stroke
complicated by pneumonia.
Bach’s Grave At St. Thomas Church
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Revised and expanded by C. Wolff. New York: W. W. Norton and Company,
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