I taught myself music since I was a child.
Bach was born in Eisenacher, a forest region in Durlingen, central Germany, on March 2 1985. Although this is a small town, its residents love music. It is said that the words "Music always shines on our town" are engraved on the ancient gate of this city. Medieval singers often held harps, where they sang poems and held singing competitions. Wagner once wrote the famous opera Don? Hauser /kloc-Martin Luther, a religious reformer in the 0 th and 6 th centuries, also translated the Bible into German here. Bach's family is an out-and-out musical family, and his family was well-known in the music industry many years before his afterlife. His father is an excellent violinist, his grandfather's two brothers are talented composers, and his uncles and sisters are respected musicians. For young Bach, he has great musical talent, and he is very lucky to grow up in such a family. But fate insisted on finding some trouble: he lost his mother at the age of 9 and his father at the age of 10, so he had to rely on his eldest brother to continue raising him.
Although there are a lot of music materials at home, his bossy brother just won't allow him to read and study, no matter how he pleads. Bach had to take advantage of his brother's leaving home and going to bed late at night to secretly copy his favorite music in the moonlight. It took half a year to copy it, and his eyesight was greatly damaged. In his later years, he spent painfully in blindness until his death.
Run away from home when I was young.
When Bach 15 years old, he finally left home alone and embarked on the road of independent life. He has a wonderful singing voice and excellent playing skills on the clavichord, violin and organ, and was awarded by Saint Louis Lombard. Michelle's church choir was admitted, and at the same time, she entered the ecstasy school. The library here is rich in classical music works, and Bach plunged into it like a huge sponge, fully absorbing and integrating the artistic achievements of various European schools and broadening his musical horizons. In order to practice piano, he often stays up late. Every holiday, he has to walk dozens of miles to Hamburg to listen to famous musicians.
Graduated as a performer
He went from three? Michelle graduated and worked as a violinist in an indoor band the following year. In the next twenty years, he did a lot of work. Bach was mainly known as an outstanding organist all his life, although he was also a composer, teacher and conductor. 1723 Bach in St.? Thomas church was the head of the choir, and he played this role for the rest of his life for 27 years.
Weimar era (1708- 17 17)
Bach played his oratorio "God is My King, BWV7 1", and resigned in the same year, accepting a more generous position in the court orchestra of William Ernst, Duke of Weimar. 17 14 became a musician. He composed most organ works in Weimar Bach, discovered Vivaldi's music for the first time, and began to compose concertos. 17 17 accepts the position of Le Zheng of Anhalt Baron Arklow in Corden; However, his resignation was blocked by William Ernst, who put him in prison even before he was relieved of his obligations.
cotten Age( 17 17- 1723)
The days in Cotten were the golden age of Bach's life. During this period, he created a lot of excellent secular music and religious music, such as the first volume of the Average Piano Music Collection, which is known as the keyboard music in the Old Testament, and the Brandenburg Concerto, a landmark in the history of orchestral development. At the same time, Bach also works in Cotten Palace. The mirror hall of Cotten Palace is very gorgeous, and there are also statues of Bach here.
1723, Bach's master, Prince Curten, seemed indifferent to music, so he resigned from the court and went to Leipzig to be the music director (music director) of St. Thomas Church School, where he spent the remaining 27 years of his life.
Since then, Keten Town has been full of vitality because of Bach's music: its choir has been using Bach's name since 1908, 1935 founded Bach Music Festival, and 1967 held Bach Music Festival and Bach Music Competition alternately here to commemorate Bach's 250th anniversary. This tradition has continued to this day. 1983, the Curten Museum of History opened the Bach Memorial Hall.
Leipzig era (1723- 1750)
Leipzig period is the longest period in Bach's life, and it is also the most creative period. At this time, Bach's playing skills and composition level have reached the point of perfection. His representative works in Leipzig include Touching Mass in B minor, Passion of Matthew, Piano Music with Equal Rhythm Volume II, The Art of Fugue, etc., which embodies his profound composition attainments. 1747, the king of uncrowned music was killed by another king on his way to Potsdam. Frederick, king of Prussia, summoned him and gave an impromptu performance, which impressed all the audience present. The following year, Bach developed the theme of this performance and wrote another work to summarize his art of composition and performance? The dedication of music.
In Leipzig, Bach was the conductor of St. Thomas Boys Choir for 27 years. Due to long-term overuse of eyes, Bach's eyesight declined and he suffered from cataracts in his later years, but he still insisted on dictation and writing. A few days before his death, he was dictating a hymn "Towards the Altar of the Lord". Every note of the music expresses the last pious prayer of the old man before his death, and finally comes to an abrupt end in Bar 26, becoming a masterpiece of the master.
1750 On the night of July 28th, Bach drew the last rest of his life and walked safely to the altar in his heart. Three days later, John? Sebastian? Bach was buried in the cemetery of St. John's Church in Leipzig.
Personality assessment
Karajan once said: "The first thing in the morning is to listen to Bach's music. It is like a clear spring flowing through my heart, which helps me correct my hearing." It is true that Bach's music sounds "unfriendly", but if you are a music lover, not listening to Bach's music is like missing the whole Baroque.
Bach's music is like a person, and the tone of Qingquan always expresses feelings implicitly. When you carefully analyze the music style, the feeling may have reached your heart before you react. Bach's music creation paved the way for later generations, just like philosophers or mathematicians. When Beethoven first heard Bach's music, he said, "This is not a stream (Bach), but obviously the sea!"
French music critic Paul? Randall said: "Bach's creative purpose is not for future generations, or even for Germany in his time." His ambition is not beyond the scope of his city or even his church. Every week he just works for the next Sunday, preparing a new work or modifying an old tune; After the performance, he put it back in the bookcase, never thinking of publishing it, and even kept it for his own use. There is no longer a masterpiece in the world whose conception and practice are so naive! "
Goethe's evaluation of Bach's music is very incisive: "This is like an eternal and harmonious dialogue, just like the flow in my heart before God created the world. I seem to have no ears, no eyes, no other senses and no need to use them. My heart is rhythmic, and it comes out one after another. " Lessing, a great German playwright and political critic, once said: "Genius is born in a very hard class, even if it is not born in extreme poverty.
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