Baroque composer
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| When did J.S. Bach live? | 1685-1750.
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| Where was he born? | Eisenach in Germany.
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| What genres did he compose in? | Every Baroque genre except opera.
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| Where were his places of major employment? | Weimar(organ works), Anhalt-Cothen(keyboard,chamber,orchestral music), and Leipzig(religious).
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| What else did he do in Leipzig? | He was director of the collegium musicum, a collection of amateur musicians. e.g. Coffee Cantata /Secular cantata.
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| What did he write for his 2nd wife? | Two music notebooks made up of suites. e.g. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722, 1725.
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| What did he write for Frederick the Great? | Musical Offering/Chamber music. It was based on a theme given by the king.
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| What did he write in support of equal temperament? | Two books of The Well-Tempered Clavier, each of which contained a prelude and fugue in every key.
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| He was a master of what texture? | Polyphonic as demonstrated in his many fugues. e.g. The Art of Fugue/ Keyboard work.
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| He used what harmonies? | He used both chromatic and dissonant harmonies in his music. e.g. Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.
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| What types of organ works did he compose? | Virtuosic works, such as Toccata and Fugue in D-.
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| How did he make large musical structures? | He combined two smaller works into one. e.g. Prelude and Fugue in C-.
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| His works show what national influences? | Italian, as shown in his use of ritornello, French, in his ornaments,
German, in his counterpoint.
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| What new instrument did he include in one of his Brandenburg Concertos? | The trumpet. He often used new instruments in his orchestra.
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| What kinds of religious compositions did he compose. | Oratorios,(St. Matthew's Passion) Mass,(Mass in B-)and over 200 cantatas,(A Mighty Fortress Is Our God).
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