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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous German composer and musician born in 1685. He came from a family of musicians, with over 50 male relatives also named Johann. As a young teacher, Bach got into a fight with some students but during a month in jail for quitting a job, he composed 46 pieces of music. He had 20 children with his two wives but only 10 lived to adulthood. Bach wrote over 1,200 musical works and was a talented organist, but went blind later in life from copying his own music. He died at age 65 from a stroke.

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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous German composer and musician born in 1685. He came from a family of musicians, with over 50 male relatives also named Johann. As a young teacher, Bach got into a fight with some students but during a month in jail for quitting a job, he composed 46 pieces of music. He had 20 children with his two wives but only 10 lived to adulthood. Bach wrote over 1,200 musical works and was a talented organist, but went blind later in life from copying his own music. He died at age 65 from a stroke.

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    Name: ___________________________________ Date: ___________________ Period:

    ________________

    Twenty Children & 1,200 Compositions Johann Sebastian


    Bach
    Born in Eisenach, Germany 1685, Died in Leipzig, Germany 1750
    Directions: Read the following, brief biography about the life of Johann Sebastian Bach
    and answer the questions that follow. We will complete the listening example as a class.

    Read the entire passage first.


    Review the questions at the end.
    Re-read if necessary to find the answers.

    The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach


    As a young music teacher, Bach was walking out one night when six
    of his own students attacked him. They wanted an apology. Bach had called
    one of them a nanny-goat bassoonist someone who makes a bassoon
    sound like a goat. But Bach wouldnt take back what he said; he drew a
    knife in self-defense. Luckily, the fight was broken up before anyone was
    really hurt.
    All his life Bach had trouble with people who didnt see things his
    way. He once wanted to quit a job, and his employer, a duke, wanted him to
    stay. Bach was so stubborn that the duke threw him in jail.
    But here is the difference between Bach and the average stubborn person: during the
    month he spent in jail, Bach wrote forty-six pieces of music music that we still listen to three
    hundred years later.
    How could Johann Sebastian Bach have ever thought of becoming anything but a
    musician? His is the largest family tree in music. Almost all his male relatives were musicians
    some seventy-six in all, fifty-three of them named Johann!
    Bachs mother read him Bible stories, and his father taught him violin, sometimes late into
    the evening. But both parents were dead by the time Bach turned ten, and he went to live with a
    brother.
    Bach was able to support himself before he was fifteen. He sang and took organ-playing
    jobs in towns near enough to walk to. (Bach was always a dedicated musician even if it meant
    blisters. Once he walked two hundred miles just to hear the great organist Dietrich Buxtehude
    play.)
    Bach spent his whole life in one small part of Germany. He was married twice, first to his
    cousin, Maria Barbara, and after she died, to Anna Magdalena, who was a good singer and
    keyboard player. Anna Magdalena helped Bach in his work so much that her handwriting came to

    look like his. Bach wrote 1,200 musical worksand fathered twenty children (though only ten
    lived to adulthood.) Five were name Johann, two Johanna, and four grew up to be famous
    composers themselves.
    In his free time at night, Bach would sit in his armchair, with a baby on his lap as his wife
    and children played and sang. Bach loved food and coffee (once he wrote a whole cantata about
    coffee). Among his most prized possessions were two silver coffeepots.
    Bach was known as a dazzling organist. His strong legs pumped the pedals, his large
    hands performed acrobatics on the keyboard, and hed even use a stick in his mouth to reach
    certain notes. But he wasnt a show-off. He said of his playing, There is nothing remarkable
    about it. All you have to do is hit the right key at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
    Later in life, Bach went blind, probably from copying out his own music in poor light for so
    many years. He died of a stroke at age sixty-five.
    Hardly any of his music was published while he was alive, nor did he expect it to be. Bach
    did not think he was writing music for musicians in the future. He was a professional much of
    his music was written for teaching other musicians. Not until about a hundred years after his
    death did the genius of Bach begin to be widely recognized.
    Music Notes
    Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations to relax a millionaire. One of his pupils, Johann Goldberg,
    worked for an insomniac count who needed music to get to sleep. The count sent the most
    generous payment Bach ever received.
    The famous Two-Part Inventions (or Ideas) were written for Bachs children, to exercise each
    finger and train the hands to play independently.
    The Brandenburg Concertos were a sort of job application to a court official of Brandenburg.
    Bach didnt get the job, but his concertos are today among the best-known instrumental
    works of this entire period.
    Mariane Ziegler, a poet who had published three books, supplied the words for several of
    Bachs works. In working with her Bach was ahead of his time, for women were allowed no
    public role in creating or performing music.

    Review
    1. What happened to Bach when he was a young teacher?
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    __
    2. What did Bach do during his one month he spent in jail?
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    __

    3. How many men in Bachs family were named Johann?


    _________________________________________________
    4. Who was Bachs first wife?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    5. Bach had ______________ children, only ______________ lived to be adults.
    6. What
    1)
    2)
    3)

    instruments did Bach play?


    _______________________________________
    _______________________________________
    _______________________________________

    7. How many musical works did Bach write?


    _________________________________________________________
    8. Bach wrote a cantata about his favorite beverage, _____________________________.
    9. Explain why Bach probably went blind:
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    _
    10.
    Explain what Bach died of and how old he was:
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    __
    11.

    The title of three Bach pieces are:


    1) _________________________________________________________________
    2) _________________________________________________________________
    3) _________________________________________________________________

    Song Title: Toccata and Fugue in d minor


    Style of Music: _______________________________
    What instruments did you see/hear?

    ______________________________________________
    _

    __________________________________________
    _

    ______________________________________________
    _

    __________________________________________
    _

    1. Draw or write about any thoughts or images come to mind as you listen to this
    piece of music.

    2. Did you enjoy the performance? Why or why not?


    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    __

    BAROQUE ERA CROSSWORD PUZZLE


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