Baroque: Bach/Rembrandt van Rijn Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685 and died at age 65 in 1750. His parents’ died when he was ten years old. Therefore he moved in with his brother Johann Christoph, who was older than him by fourteen years, in Ohrdruf. Now by this time J. S. Bach was already suitable to play the violin.
Johannes Sebastian Bach was born into a family with a musical reputation in his birth town of Eisnach. His uncle, Johann Christoph Bach was a well known organist and his father a court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach, he had many mentors and influences in his life that helped him develop his musical talents . Bach grew up surrounded by music and began his studies in violin and harpsichord a very young age, taught by his father. Bach had experience playing the organ and singing in choirs, as he sang with his Latin Grammar School and was recognized for his, “uncommonly fine treble voice”. At the age of nine, Bach’s parents passed away within a nine month span of each other.
One composer that I believed deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest musician of the 17th and 18th century is Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Vivaldi was a 17th century composer who’s become one of the most well know musician and the renowned figures of European classical music. I favor Vivaldi as musician not only for his musical talents but also, his background life story that lead to him being one of the greatest composers of the world. Antonio Vivaldi was born in 1678 in Venice, Italy. His father Giovanni Battista, a local violinist taught Vivaldi how to play the instrument.
Katharine Drexel was a person who truly believed in helping the poor and the oppressed people within society. It is because of that, Drexel is known as the patron saint of racial justice and philanthropists (“The Life and Legacy”). She strived to live a humble and helpful life, ensuring those around her were taken care of in every way possible. However, despite her humility brought about through her profession, she was not brought up living a meek and small life. Katherine Drexel was born into an extremely wealthy family who always taught and led by the idea that “wealth was to be shared with those in need”(“The Life and Legacy”).
The Renaissance was a beautiful period, with beautiful pieces of artwork to the beautiful melodies in songs, the Renaissance is truly a time to remember. Many famous pieces of work and their artists came from this period, artists such as Michelangelo, van Eyck and da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci is most famous for his piece called the Mona Lisa. Art is filled with diversity and different opinions, but how did da Vinci’s artwork influence the Renaissance period? The Renaissance period was from 1400 to 1600 BCE and was a very creative time in history.
He was born January 8th, 1792 in Medfield, Massachusetts as the firstborn of an established and middle-class family . Very early in his life he was an accomplished musician, attending singing schools and then teaching first singing school at the age of 15, an instrumentalist who at 16 got to direct the town band . Despite his achievements however, he wanted to go into business like his father and spent 15 years in Savannah, Georgia before returning to Boston in 1827 at the age of 35 . In Boston he worked as a banker, directed church choirs, and led the Handel and Haydn Society there in Boston . Around his 40’s, his time is now spent as a fulltime musician, in churches, schools, as church organist, choir director, academy choral director, administrator, publicist, and editor of textbooks, hymnals, and choral music anthologies
Handel caused a great impact during the Baroque Era. Handel’s career consisted of composing. Even from an early age, Handel composed music, for churches. Handel’s first debut was in 1705, with the opera composition of Almira. Shortly after the release, Almira became a great success and was granted twenty additional performances.
Bach was on March 31 1685 in Thuringia, Germany. Raised in family of musicians. He had played harpsichord and organ and violin. As a young boy he was given a religious educated little did known would be composing lutheran faith influence his works in the long run. The boys of the school formed the choir at St. Georgenkirche, which gave Johann Sebastian Bach an opportunity to sing in the regular services,and also around the villages.
Looking at Johann Sebastian Bach’s and George Frideric Handel’s lives, we could find some similarities, like the fact they were both from Germany, but there are also several ways in which their lives differ. Johann Sebastian Bach was born and grew up in a musical family, receiving an early musical instruction from his father. At that time, it was very common for people to be taught music by their relatives. Very young, he is encouraged to pursue his education in music, and soon obtained his first post as organist. George Frideric Handel, on the contrary, even though he was showing musical gift during his childhood, was not encouraged to pursue his education in music, but was encouraged to study law instead.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician born in 1685 of the Baroque period and is famously known for his instrumental compositions such as Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, Toccato and Fugue in D minor, and Magnificat just to name a few. Since the 19th century, Bach has been generally regarded as the greatest composer of all time. Being the last of eight children to be born into the Bach family, Johann basically had his life set up for him because his father was a city musician from Eisenach. Johann became an orphan at the tender age of ten and went to live with his brother in Luneburg while continuing his musical formation. I would like to think that Johann had a predominantly stable and great life, but he had to work hard
Both J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel use different aspects of music to compose important pieces of music. The baroque period is often known as the time when artists exaggerated their motion and produced drama through interpreted detail. Both of these composers used this baroque style to convey messages through their music. The similarity in their music was that it is in a spiritual manner. J.S. Bach’s style was a harmonic and motivation manner, which Handel’s is more of a narrative.
When George Frideric Handel was a little kid, his uncle gave him a clavier which was a small keyboard-like instrument in secret because he knew that George loved the beautiful notes of music. One night, his parents heard music wafting throughout the house in the middle of the night and knew not from whence it came. When they searched the house, they found George playing melodies on his instrument. This was one of the first times that he would experience music for himself and lead him to have a career that would produce one of the most inspiring pieces of all time: the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah.
“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results” (Bach). Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most influential composers of all time ("Top 10 Most Famous Classical Composers of All Time.") He lived during the Baroque period of music in the 17th century. Baroque music is a category of European Classical music and is recognized for ornamentation added to long melodic lines, the addition and use of harpsichord and basso continuos.
Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Sonata in A minor BWV 1003 (1720) Greatest German composer of all time, Johann Sebastian was born in a musical family in Eisenach. He received his musical training from his father Johann Ambrosius and relatives. Besides being a highly respected organist, Bach’s compositions were also greatly recognized and became the musical model for other famed composers after his time such as Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The Sonata in A minor is one of the works in Bach’s six unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas.
Baroque music is a style of western art music. It was followed after the Renaissance music and was followed in turn by classical music. It emerged in the seventeenth century as a shorthand notation for keyboardists who were accompanying a soloist or small ensemble performing a work originally composed for a larger group. Key composers of the Baroque music are Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean Philippe Rameau, Johann Pachelbel, George Frideric Handle, Claudio Monteverdi Domenico Scarlatti and many others.
