10 facts about Johann Sebastian Bach?

Question

What are ten facts about Johann Sebastian Bach?

Answer 1

Well he played the Cathedral Organ and after him 100 of his decendants did

Answer 2

Born and raised in Thuringia, he never went farther north than Hamburg and Lübeck, or farther south than Carlsbad.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany to an extraordinarily musical family - for more than 200 years, the Bach family had produced dozens of worthy performers and composers during a period in which the church, local government and the aristocracy provided significant support for professional music making in the German-speaking world, particularly in the eastern electorates of Thuringia and Saxony.
At the age of 14, Johann Sebastian was awarded a choral scholarship, with his older school friend, Georg Erdmann, to study at the prestigious St Michael’s School in Lüneburg, not far from the largest city in Germany, the northern seaport of Hamburg.


Bach's mother died in 1694, and his father died the following year. The 10-year-old orphan moved in with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach, the organist at Ohrdruf, a nearby town.


Bach wrote music for single instruments, duets and small ensembles

Bach's best-known orchestral works are the Brandenburg concertos, so named because he submitted them in the hope of gaining employment from Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721

Bach's large work, the Mass in B minor, was assembled by Bach near the end of his life

Bach's copy of a two volume Bible commentary by the orthodox Lutheran theologian, Abraham Calov, was discovered in the 1950s in a barn in Minnesota

Bach became increasingly blind, and the celebrated British opthalmist John Taylor (who had operated successfully on Handel) operated on Bach while visiting Leipzig in 1750. However Bach died "from the unhappy consequences of the very unsuccessful eye operation"[6] at the age of 65.


Today the "Bach style" continues to influence musical composition, from hymns and religious works to pop and rock.

Answer 3

Bach was a celebrated german composer, as to who was better, it depends on what type of classical music you prefer, but I personal favor Beethoven... but it is hard to say who is the "best" pianist.... I'll give you a website...