Bach comes from a respected musical family. His great-grandfather Baker Fett Bach was a music fan, and even when he went to the mill to grind noodles, he took his beloved guzheng (a plucked instrument popular in Germany and Austria). His great-grandfather Johannes (about 1580- 1626) was a famous musician. Johannes' eldest son, Johannes (1604-1673), is the first composer of Bach family. His works still have three works, which vividly reflect the social outlook during the Thirty Years' War. The second son tallis Dover (1613-161) is Bach's grandfather and musician. The third son Heinrich is also a famous musician. Bach's father and mother are violinists of Eisenach. Bach is the fifth generation. Bach's son is also a famous musician. For more than 200 years, there have been more than 50 musicians in the Bach family, so that the name Bach has become synonymous with musicians in the local area. The last member of Bach's family died in 187 1, and this great pulse ended here.
This family lives all the year round in a small country set by the map of Lingen Congshan in central Germany, and rarely hears news from the outside world. They took music as their profession, which was passed down from generation to generation like the habits of blacksmiths and tailors at that time. Most of them are engaged in church organists, school music teachers and church choir leaders. Urban public * * * groups, such as players. Most people who associate with this family are craftsmen.
They have a family reunion in Thuringia every year. At the party, they will eat, dance, sing and talk about their work.
Bach was influenced by music since he was a child and grew up in national and popular music life. At the same time, his father, Apsius Bach, taught him musical skills. At the age of seven, Bach entered the Latin school attached to a local church and was an excellent student. He also joined a choir composed of students, sang religious songs at weddings and funerals in various festival performances, and earned some money to pay for his tuition.
At the age of nine, Bach's unfortunate parents died one after another. His long knowledge, John Christopher (1671~1721) took him to Alderov, where he studied music with his brother at school. He not only achieved excellent academic results, but also showed outstanding singing ability.
Bach's love for music grew day by day, and he began to be dissatisfied with his brother's craftsman-style teaching. His endless questions also made his brother angry. It is said that his brother had handwritten music scores of many works by Hannibal Gail (16 16- 1667) and Kyle (1627- 1693), the most famous musicians in Germany at that time. Bach tried to read these music scores several times, but his brother refused. But young Bach, driven by a strong thirst for knowledge, got up quietly every night, took out these music scores from the bookcase and copied them by moonlight. Just copy, one person, half a year passed, and he finally finished copying. One day, when his brother learned about it, he ruthlessly took these music sheets that he had worked so hard to take away from the children.
Stubborn character and indomitable spirit. Diligent self-study leads to future success. Bach devoted all his energy to playing the violin, the clavichord and especially the organ. His brother was a disciple of the great German musician Herbbel (1653- 1700). Bach learned Pachebel's style through his brother, which had an obvious influence on his later creation.
It's been five years since Aldrov. When my brother had his fifth child. Bach, who had long dreamed of living independently, left his brother's home. Came to Ellenburg alone. He was only fifteen years old at this time.
Lombard is a religious singing music center in northern Germany, where the children's choir is quite excellent. Young Bach, with his beautiful singing voice and skillful violin, clavichord and organ playing skills, was admitted to the "Excellent Singers" choir affiliated to St. Michel's Church in Rhomberg, and at the same time entered the theological seminary. Although I can get some meager salary here, I still have to go out to sing with my classmates.
There are many works of ancient German and Italian musicians in the library here. Bach plunged into it and devoted himself to studying these manuscripts, which greatly broadened Bach's musical vision. He also interacted with a famous composer and organist from another church and asked him for advice. He went to Hamburg more than once to listen to the performance of Baum's old teacher and organist Ryan Ken, and to the opera of German opera composer Kaiser (1674- 1739). In order to learn French music, he went to the Chelle Palace as a temporary musician, thus contacting the string works of French composer Luli (1632- 1687) and listening to many French classical piano pieces.
Like a sponge, Bach tried his best to absorb and integrate the artistic achievements of various schools in Europe at that time, studied hard and became an outstanding performer, instrument appraiser and composer. Later, someone asked Bach how his art reached such a perfect state. He replied seriously and simply: "This is because I worked hard. If someone works as hard as I do, they will reach the same level. "
Bach's music works are vast, although most of them have been lost, but there are also many left, about 500. There are many composers with prolific works in the history of music, but until today, few people can compare with them in music. Except for opera, Bach's creation involved all the music clips at that time. Among them, there are the most vocal works, including 300 religious choruses, 20 secular choruses and 3 passionate songs (based on the acoustic music about the crucifixion of Jesus in the Gospels of the Bible). ) as well as oratorios (large vocal divertimento with dramatic and epic content) and mass (this is a polyphonic vocal concert used by Catholicism. (among them, mass in B minor is the most famous) and hymn (a kind of hymn that teaches people to sing together, which is a mixed four-part chorus. /kloc-After the 6th century, it was changed to instrumental music or oratorio. ) and so on. Instrumental works include organ music, clavichord music, six Brandenburg concertos, four orchestral suites, one or more piano concertos, viola concertos accompanied by bands, unaccompanied violin sonatas, cello suites and flute sonatas.
Bach's music works are all-encompassing, covering all musical fields except opera at that time (this is very different from Handel, whose road to success began with opera). Although most of the works have been scattered for a long time, there are still more than 500 copies.
Among them, the main representative works include: Gentle Clarville, The Art of Fugue, Six Brandenburg Concertos, Two Violin Concertos, Six Violin Sonatas and Suites Accompanied by Kubinashi, Six Kubinashi Cello Sonatas and Suites, French Suite, English Suite, Peasant Chorus and Coffee Chorus.