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00000A50: 4B 20 55 50 2E 0D 0D 0D                           |K UP....        |
.RVA..OHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, B. 21 MARCH.
1685, D. 28 JULY 1750, WAS ONE OF THE.GR
EATEST AND MOST PROLIFIC COMPOSERS.IN HI
STORY. OVER A THOUSAND OF HIS.COMPOSITIO
NS ARE KNOWN, AND IT IS.THOUGHT THAT HUN
DREDS OF OTHERS ARE.STILL EXTANT. DESPIT
E HIS LACK OF.SUCCESS AS A COMPOSER DURI
NG HIS.LIFE, BEING FAR BETTER KNOWN AS A
N.ORGANIST, THE SKILLFUL CRAFTING OF.HIS
 MELODIOUS AND CAPTIVATING WORKS.HAVE MA
DE HIM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS.CLASSICAL 
MUSICIANS..    BACH WAS BORN INTO MUSIC.
 HIS.PARENTS WERE MUSICIANS, AND WHEN TH
EY.DIED WHEN YOUNG JOHANN WAS NINE, HE.L
IVED WITH HIS OLDER BROTHER, WHO WAS.AN 
ORGANIST IN OHRDRUF, WHERE BACH.REMAINED
 UNTIL 1700, LEARNING ORGAN.AND MUSICAL 
FUNDAMENTALS FROM HIS.BROTHER. IN 1703 H
E TOOK A POST IN.WEIMAR, LATER BECOMING 
ORGANIST IN.ARNSTADT, FROM WHICH HIS EAR
LIEST.COMPOSITIONS ARE DATED..    BACH H
AD LITTLE RESPECT FOR.CONVENTION OR AUTH
ORITY, ESPECIALLY.WHERE HIS SUPERIORS IN
 ARNSTADT WERE.CONCERNED. A FAMOUS STORY
 RELATES.BACH'S FOUR-WEEK LEAVE TO HEAR 
THE.GREAT DANISH COMPOSER DIETRICH.BUXTE
HUDE. BACH WALKED TO LUEBECK,.THE SITE O
F THE CONCERT, A DISTANCE.OF 220 MILES, 
AND UNSURPRISINGLY.ARRIVED LATE. BUXTEHU
DE OFFERED BACH.A POSITION AS ORGANIST, 
BUT WITH ONE.SNAG: BACH HAD TO MARRY HIS
 30-YEAR.OLD SPINSTER DAUGHTER. BACH TUR
NED.DOWN THE OFFER (AS, INTERESTINGLY.EN
OUGH, GEORG HANDEL HAD DONE TWO.YEARS BE
FORE), AND RETURNED TO.ARNSTADT TWELVE W
EEKS LATE, WHICH DID.NOT ENDEAR HIM TO T
HE CLERGY THERE..    IN 1707 HE HAD HIS 
FIRST MARRIAGE.AND BECAME ORGANIST IN MU
EHLHAUSEN..THE CONGREGATION PROMPTLY OBJ
ECTED TO.HIS COMPOSITIONS, AND BACH WAS 
ASKED.TO DESIST OR LEAVE. BACH LEFT AND.
WENT BACK TO WEIMAR, WHERE HE WAS.DULY P
ROMOTED BUT NOT TO THE POSITION.HE HAD E
XPECTED HE WOULD, SO HE.SOUGHT EMPLOYMEN
T IN COETHEN. WHEN HE.RECEIVED APPOINTME
NT, HIS REQUEST TO.BE RELIEVED FROM WEIM
AR WAS SO HARSH.THAT HE WAS IMPRISONED F
OR A MONTH..    BACH WAS TO REMAIN IN CO
ETHEN.UNTIL 1723, WHERE IN 1721 HE MARRI
ED.ANNA MAGDALENA WILCKEN, TO WHOM HE.DE
DICATED MUCH OF HIS WORKS. IN.ADDITION T
O BEING A PROLIFIC.COMPOSER, BACH WAS AL
SO A PROLIFIC.HUSBAND, FATHERING 20 CHIL
DREN IN.ALL, INCLUDING WILHELM FRIEDEMAN
N AND.CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL, MANY OF WHOM
.BECAME COMPOSERS OF RENOWN.THEMSELVES. 
WHEN BACH'S PATRON,.PRINCE LEOPOLD, MARR
IED AND LET BACH.SLIDE, BACH MOVED FROM 
COETHEN TO.LEIPZIG, WHERE FINALLY HE GOT
 THE.RECOGNITION AS A POWERFUL MUSICIAN.
THAT BACH HAD ALWAYS FIGURED HE.DESERVED
. AS KAPELLMEISTER OF ST..THOMAS CHURCH,
 WHICH IN EFFECT WAS.MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR 
THE ENTIRE CITY,.BACH WROTE MANY OF HIS 
BEST WORKS.THERE, AND REMAINED IN LEIPZI
G UNTIL.HIS DEATH....CO2.PRESS F7 TO BAC
K UP....
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