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Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750), a German composer of the Baroque period, an outstanding organ, violin, A harpsichord player, the world generally considers him to be one of the most important composers in the history of music, and respects him 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 of his life in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. .

Bach integrated the musical styles of different ethnic groups in Western Europe and collected the essence of traditional music from Italy, France and Germany.

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.

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Bach's works are deep, tragic, broad and intrinsic, full of the atmosphere of real life in Germany in the first half of the 18th century. He was deeply religious and a Lutheran. He wanted his music to serve the church, and most of his compositions were religious music. His music reflects the thoughts of ordinary citizens living in Germany in the 18th century.

He is deeply affected by the pain that life has brought him, and has rich and profound feelings about life. Although he is passive and surrendered, he has not yet seen a way to change his life. But he felt that a person must have a strong will, a noble belief, a spirit of self-sacrifice - this is the main content that Bach reflected in his art. His works reflect this humanistic thought among German citizens in the eighteenth century from different angles and using different images.

He composed many large-scale vocal works full of dramatic elements, among which "Matthew Passion" and "Mass in B Minor" are the most influential works. In these works, Bach, as a devout Protestant, expressed his pity and sympathy for human disasters and suffering through religious music forms (passions, masses, motets, cantatas, etc.), as well as his hope for a peaceful and happy future. desire.

Among Bach’s vocal works, cantata are the most colorful. On the one hand, Bach's cantatas inherit the tradition of secular "cantatas" close to opera, and on the other hand, they inherit the tradition of religious cantatas close to polyphonic chorus, creating a new type of canta that is a combination of vocal and instrumental music. tower.

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