Bach's music is of German style.

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Bach's works are deep, solemn and stirring, broad and internal, and full of the atmosphere of real life in Germany in the first half of the 18th century. He is deeply religious and a Lutheran. He hoped that his music would serve the church, and most of his works were religious music. His music embodies the thoughts of ordinary German citizens living in the 18th century.

the indirectness of Bach's music content determines the version activity and comprehensiveness of his music style. There is no clear difference between Bach's vocal music style and instrumental music style, and he created a new style of vocal music and instrumental music synthesis.

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Bach left home alone at the age of fifteen and embarked on an independent life. He was admitted to the choir attached to St. Michel's Church in Luneberg by his beautiful singing voice and excellent playing skills of the clavichord, violin and organ, and he also entered god school to study. The library here is rich in classical music works, in which Bach fully absorbed and integrated the artistic achievements of various European schools and broadened his musical horizons.

among Bach's vocal works, cantata is the most colorful. Bach's cantata inherits the tradition of secular "kanglu pagoda" close to opera on the one hand, and the tradition of religious cantata close to polyphonic chorus on the other hand, creating a new type of cantata with comprehensive vocal and instrumental music.

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