Johann Sabastian Bach (March 31, 1685 - July 28, 1750)



       Johann Sabastian Bach was a great composer and a talented musician of the Baroque period (1600 to 1750).
 He composed many pieces such as, "Brandenburg Concertos", "Goldberg Variations", the "Mass in B minor", and others. However, one of his most well known composition is the "Well-Tempered Clavier" composed in 1722.

     Bach played the violin, harpsichord, and the clavichord.  He married a German girl named Maria Barbara from Schwarzburg-Sondershausen,
Germany in 1707. In 1720 Maria unexpectedly died without notice while her husband was on a trip.  She was buried on July 7.  So Bach remarried
in 1721 to Anne Magdalena of  Zeitz, Germany.  He lived a happy life until 1749 when his heath started to go down and he began to loose his sight.
About a year later he died of what the Doctors think was a combination of a stroke and pneumonia.

 

       
 

 

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