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    chord in a piece of music, and that composer is Johann Sebastian Bach. He was so influential to music, in fact, that his death marked the death of the Baroque Period. Let’s take a deeper look at the life of this amazing composer. Now, where else do you start with anyone’s story, the beginning. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Germany into an extremely large and musically oriented musical family, “The Bachs were,

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    There is no possible report I can write on a piece of music. It was made by Johann Sebastian Bach. That’s pretty much it. So, let’s talk about the “Gender Wage Gap”. You have probably often heard that for the same work, a woman receives 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. However, this is far from the truth. This 23-cent "gap" is simply the average earnings of men and women employed "full time". This does not account for differences in occupations, positions, educations, job tenure, hours worked

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    Sebastian Bach Biography

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    Johann Sebastian Bach once said, “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” It is known that Bach is classified as a musical genius who served the Lord, but how did his music influence later musicians? His prodigious talents discovered during his early childhood brought him much success throughout the Baroque Era allowing him to write over one thousand compositions. An exploration of his youth, his trials and struggles, and writing

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    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German Baroque-era composer. He was very religious and often had problems with city councils because they thought that his music was too complex. Thomas Malthus was an English demographer who was born in the 18th century. He studied the relationship between food sources and population, combining his research into the idea of Malthusianism. Malthus worked at a church in England and thought that people should believe in God in order to get rid of animal instincts. Johann

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    Johann Sebastian Bach had a profound impact on music history. Bach’s music not only influenced composers and musicians of his day, but his music continues to have a great impact on today’s artists. Many musicians use Bach as an inspiration and musical guide for studying composition and technique. Educators formulated the numerous rules and practices taught in formal music education by studying the works of Bach. Some of Bach’s motifs can be heard in modern compositions. Bach style and structure has

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    one’s opinion. The most common are between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ludwig Van Beethoven. In my opinion, J.S. Bach is the most astounding composer of all time in music. Johann has become an essential and an influence to all musicians. Why are these three the most common? It is simply based on opinion.. They are pure geniuses. Mozart learned from Bach, Beethoven from Mozart, Beethoven learned from Bach. Each one built off one another’s influence to progress music to what

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    Sebastian Bach Biography

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    Born in Eisenach on March, 21 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was the youngest son of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elizabeth Limmerhirt. His Father was a prominent town musician from a highly respected musical family and at the time of his birth served as the director of municipal music in Eisenach (Williams 9). He got his name Johann from his father’s family as was the tradition and his middle name, Sebastian, was that of his God-father, another musician in Eisenach. Nothing is written or known about his

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    of the most influential eras of music in music history. One of the most famous and well-known composers from that era is Johann Sebastian Bach (McKay, Hill, et al., 2012). In this discussion we will be analyzing who Bach was and his place in history and critiquing his influences in both today’s musical society and the musical society in the Baroque Era. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31, 1685 to a family of musicians well known for their talents (Marshall, 2015). He was taught to play

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    history, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Germany. Born into a musical family his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing. Another relation, the organist at Eisenach’s most important church, intructed the young boy on the organ.      In 1695, Johann Sebastian was orphaned; he went to live with his older brother, Johann Christoph, in Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph

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    Benjamin Bach Biography

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    Arlyne Covarrubias Johann Sebastian Bach, as the world has come to know was a remarkable person. Terry states Bach’s birth as March 21, 1685 the youngest child from his family born in the baroque era (20). He came from a lineage where many of his relatives were musicians. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach was a town's musician and it is suspected that he is the person whom thought Bach the arts of playing the violin. Bach’s family was of the higher class with good morals and good family traditions

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