Introduction to Bach's life

German composer and keyboard player in baroque period.

1708, he went to Weimar as an organist in the court church; During his nine years in office, he composed a lot of organ music and oratorios, and studied French classical piano music and Italian string works.

/kloc-went to Leipzig in 0/723 and worked in this city for 27 years, serving as chorus conductor and music director of St. Thomas church; During this period, he created important religious and secular music works, including The Passion of Matthew, The Passion of John, Mass in B minor, Oratorio, Classic Songs, Ode to Our Lady and so on.

Creative characteristics

Apart from opera, Bach's creation involves most music schools in the Baroque period. His initial writing is in line with his specific position, and his works can be classified accordingly: in Arnstadt, Mirgaojin and Weimar, he was an organist, so he wrote many organ works.

Because of his deep faith in religion, his works are mainly religious music and polyphonic music, with strict ideas, inner feelings, philosophy and logic. He took the hymns of Luther Protestantism and the church musical instrument organ as the core of his creative material and sound conception, but he was also influenced by the bourgeois enlightenment thought, which made his works full of secular feelings and bold and innovative spirit.