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Composer and organist · 1685–1750 · Music
Wrote a cantata nearly every week for years in Leipzig, fathered twenty children, and was half-forgotten for eighty years after his death.
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“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”
attributed to J. S. Bach
Bach was orphaned at ten and raised by an elder brother, walking long distances to hear the organists he admired. He held posts at Weimar, Köthen and finally Leipzig, where from 1723 he was cantor of the Thomasschule, responsible for music at the city's main churches — which meant producing cantatas at a pace that is hard to credit. The St Matthew Passion, the Mass in B minor, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Brandenburg Concertos all come from this working life, written for services, pupils or patrons rather than posterity. Twenty children were born to his two wives; several became composers. His reputation faded until Mendelssohn revived the St Matthew Passion in 1829.
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