1. The Brandenburg Concerto

In the winter of p>1718-1719, Bach went to Berlin to perform for the Grand Duke of Brandenburg, and the Grand Duke asked Bach to send him some works. Bach selected these six concertos from his works in Keten, copied them and dedicated them to the Grand Duke. These six concertos are not a set, and each one needs different instrument combinations, so Bach titled them "Concertos for Six Different Instruments".

After the death of Dagong, the assembled musicians were dissolved, and the unused music scores were sold at the price of 48 pennies of waste paper for a concerto. Fortunately, these concertos were bought by Bach's disciple, Chilon Berg, a famous composition teacher at that time, and were later given to his disciple, the daughter of the Duke of Amaryllia in Prussia, frederick the great's sister, and these manuscripts were preserved.

2. The Passion of Matthew

was written between 1724 and 1727, based on the description of the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible. The whole work has a grand structure, with 78 partings. It is divided into two parts: the first part has 35 songs, which describe the process of Jesus being betrayed by his disciples and finally arrested; There are 43 songs in the second part, which describe the scenes of Jesus being tried, crucified and buried.

3. Mass in B minor

A new kind of church music appeared in Europe at the end of the 17th century, and Bach's Mass in B minor belongs to this kind, that is, Cantata－Mass.

In this kind of mass, there is a strong contrast between solo and chorus. The colors of orchestral music are magnificent and describe feelings widely, and all the techniques in opera and Oratorio are also introduced into the mass. In the "Mass in B minor", the coloratura singing method of soprano is from Italian opera.

The duet is a technique from AgostinoSteffani1654-1728-1728).

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Bach integrated the musical styles of different nationalities in Western Europe, and collected the essence of traditional music in Italy, France and Germany. The music was wonderful and perfectly matched.

Bach himself was not famous in his life, and he was forgotten by the world fifty years after his death. However, in the past century and a half, his fame has been growing constantly. Generally speaking, he is one of the two or three greatest composers in the history of western music, and some people think that he is one of the greatest composers.

an outstanding organ, violin and harpsichord player, he is generally regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of music, and he is honored as "the father of modern western music", and he is also one of the most important figures in the history of western culture.