He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. Bach's compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.īach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic, and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. In the last decades of his life, he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by his sovereign, Augustus III of Poland, in 1736. From 1726, he published some of his keyboard and organ music. There he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1723, he was employed as Thomaskantor ( cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician, Johann Ambrosia, in Eisenach. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor.
Along with discussions of important new books, MQ publishes review essays on a wide variety of significant new music performances and recordings.Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. In addition, a fifth section entitled 'Primary Sources' features discussions on issues of biography, texts, and manuscripts reflections on leading figures personal statements by noted performers and composers and essays on performances and recordings. Regular sections include 'American Musics', 'Music and Culture', 'The Twentieth Century', and an 'Institutions, Industries, Technologies' section which examines music and the ways it is created and consumed. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.
Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens. The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States.
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