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Chinese name: Johann Sebastian Bach

Foreign name: Johann Sebastian Bach

Alias: JS BACH/J.S. Bach

Nationality: German

Ethnicity: German

Place of birth: Eisenach

Date of birth : March 21, 1685 (Julian calendar); March 31 (Gregorian calendar)

Date of death: July 28, 1750

Occupation: Organist , conductor, composer

Graduation school: St. Michael's School

Faith: Lutheran Christian

Main achievements: West (Europe) The Father of Music

Representative works: "Brandenburg Concerto", "Matthew Passion", "Mass in B Minor", "Well-Tempered Clavier"

Place of Death : Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire

Age: 65 years old

Musical school: Baroque

Specialties: organ music, religious music, concertos

Father: Johann Ambrosius Bach

Mother: Maria Elizabeth Lemocht Johann Sebastian Bach - the father of modern Western music

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Johann Sebastian Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach, March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750), a German composer of the Baroque period, an outstanding organ, violin, and harpsichord The performer is generally regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of music, and is honored as the "Father of Modern Western Music". He is also one of the most important figures in the history of Western culture.

Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenach, a small town in Thuringia, central Germany. He was a famous court musician during his lifetime and spent the last 27 years in St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig, Germany. .

Bach integrated the musical styles of different nations in Western Europe. He combines the essence of Italian, French and German traditional music, and his music is as wonderful as it is perfect.

Bach himself was not famous during his lifetime and was forgotten fifty years after his death. But his fame has continued to grow over the past century and a half, and he is generally regarded as one of the two or three greatest composers in the history of Western music, and some consider him the greatest of them all.