In 1740 began to have trouble with his eyesight and in the last year of his life was almost totally blind.īach was famous as an org.

his last, the unfinished Die Kunst der Fuge (Art of Fugue). more than 250 church cantatas, the St Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, Goldberg Variations, and many other works incl. Remained at St Thomas's for the rest of his life, not without several disputes with the authorities. his St John Passion in St Thomas's as evidence of his fitness for the post. He was not selected, but the chosen candidate, Graupner, withdrew and Bach was appointed in May 1723, having in the meantime cond. Now dissatisfied with life at Cöthen, where the ruler's new wife showed little interest in mus., Bach applied for the cantorship at St Thomas's, Leipzig, in Dec. 1721 he married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, 20‐year‐old daughter of the court trumpeter. many of his best klavier works at Cöthen, probably for his children's instruction. concs., sonatas, suites, and Brandenburg concs. In 1717 appointed Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt‐Cöthen where the prince's interest was not in religious works but in instr.

In 1708 became organist in the Kapelle of the Duke of Saxe‐Weimar, where he remained for 9 years, leaving in disappointment at not being appointed Kapellmeister in 1717. Organist at Arnstadt, 1703, and then Mühlhausen, 1707, when he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. In 1700 was a chorister at St Michael's Church, Lüneburg, staying for 3 years, learning much from the organist‐composer Georg Böhm. Bach was orphaned at the age of 10 and went to live with his elder brother Johann Christoph at Ohrdruf where he had klavier and org. Son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, organist and town musician, J.

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