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  From Mühlhausen to Weimar

  bach´s new post at weimar after his two years in mühlhauen.

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  From Arnstadt to Mühlhausen.

  By 1706, despite his comfortable position in Arnstadt, Bach moves to Mühlhausen. Now Bach appears to have realised that he needs to escape from the family milieu and move to further his career.
  Four months after arriving in Mühlhausen, he married his second cousin from Arnstadt, Maria Barbara Bach. The had seven children, four of whom survived adulthood. Two of them Wilhem FRiedemann Bach and carl Philipp Emanuel Bach became important composers in the Rococo style that followed the Baroque.
  Despite his good work conditions and the city government recognition in 1708 he moves to Weimar, where he is offered a better post.

  his post as organist at st. blasius´s in mühlhausen.

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  From Weimar to Arnstadt

  The Bach family had close connections with this oldest town in Thuringia and in August 1703 he accepted the post of organist at that church, with light duties, a relatively generous salary and a fine new organ tuned to a modern system that allowed a wide range of keys to be used.
  Is at this time that Bach is embarked on the serious composition of organ preludes in which he had yet finally developed his powers of large-sclae organisation and his contrapuntual technique, where two or more melodies interact simultaneously.
  Despite his comfortable position in Arnstadt by 1706 Bach moves to Mühlhausen.

  his post as organist at the church in arnstadt.

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  Weimar

  weimar

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  From Weimar to Köthen.

  from weimar to köthen.

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  From köthen to Leipzig.

  In 1723 Bach is apointed Cantor of Thomasschule, adjacent to the Thomaskirsche in Leipzig, as well as Director of Music in the principal churches in the town. This final post, which he held for 27 years until his death, brought ...
  Bach died on 28 July 1750 at the age of 65.

  from köthen to leipzig.

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  Johann Sebastian Bach

  We are now going to learn about the German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach. This is going to be a journey to discover the most important aspects of his life and career following him along Germany, where he was born and grew up as one of the most outstanding representatives of the Barroque music style.

  germany the country that saw johann sebastian bach´s birth.

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  Bach moves to Ohrdruf.

  Johann Sebastian Bach became an orphan child at a very young age, he was only ten so he moved with his older brother Jahann Christoph Bach to Ohrdruf, where he was the organist at the Michaelihkirche. Here the young Sebastian copied, studied and performed music and received teaching from his brother, who introduced him on the clavichord.

  j. s. bach´s first moving.

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  Johann Sebastian Bach ´s birthplace

  Johann Sebastian Bach was born in March 1685 in Eisenach as the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, an organist at St. George´s Church, and Maria Elisabetha Lämmerhirt Bach.

  birthplace.

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  The young fourteen-year old Bach moves again.

  At the age of fourteen, together with his older friend George Erdmann, the young Bach is awarded a choral scholarship to study at the prestigious St. Michael´s School in Lüneburg. He spends two years there in which he is exposed to a wide palette of European culture. He probably learns French and Italian and receives thorough grounding in theology, Latin, history, geography and physics and gets in touch with the sons of noblemen from northern Germanysent to the highly selective school to prepare for careers such as diplomacy or government.
  It is likely that during this stay he becomes acquainted with the music of the German organ schools and with music manuscripts and treatiseson music theory in the possession of these musicians.
  Short after graduating, Bach moves to Weimar.
  

  bach´s scholarship in lüneburg.