Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is often called the summit of Western music. An architect of sound, he brought the art of the fugue and of Counterpoint to perfection: several independent melodic lines woven together.
His was not the life of a court star. It was the life of a craftsman of genius, working for the Church and for princes, whose music would only be fully rediscovered in the 19th century.
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- 2The Baroque: church, court, and stage
- 3Leipzig: the cantor and his cantatas
- 4The Well-Tempered Clavier and the rediscovery
- 5SDG, Voyager, and a universal legacy
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary11 terms explained in a tap.
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