Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Composer Of the Week.



Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Thuringia, Germany in 1685 (the same year as Handel). His music has been admired and loved through the centuries. This man, whose mathematic is reflected in hundreds of works charged of baroque contra punt, has been the inspiration for posterior musicians. Today, his complex system and structure is the base for modern music.
Born in a family of musicians, at the death of his parents he went to live with his uncle Johann Christoph who was also his teacher in music studies . Johann Sebastian developed a strong ear for music and a great personality in composition. He studied a lot of different French and Italian composers to prepare to succeed in the beauty of arts and began to compose beautiful church works in a beautiful style we can admire today , style which was criticized by lots of people interested in a new kind of music, which was monophonically less artistic (different from Bach’s polyphonical perfection). Today, that kind of music is not listened nor admired, but Bach’s still in the peak of western music

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