Johann Sebastian Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach 🇩🇪

Johann Sebastian Bach (Known as "Father of Western Classical Music / Cantor of St. Thomas")
Baroque Composer, Organist, Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Master of Counterpoint
Born 31 March 1685 🇩🇪 Eisenach (Thuringia), Germany
Passed Away 28 July 1750 Leipzig (Saxony), Germany
Lifespan 65 years old
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"Soli Deo Gloria. (To God alone be glory.) The aim and final end of all music should be nothing else than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

Archival Overview

Supreme master of Western music whose towering achievements in counterpoint, sacred cantatas, the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, and The Well-Tempered Clavier stand as the absolute summit of the Baroque era.

Biographical Record

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was born into an illustrious musical dynasty in Thuringia. Serving at Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar, and Köthen before spending his final twenty-seven years as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach unified German polyphony, French court dance rhythms, and Italian melodic elegance into a monumental, transcendent musical architecture.

A devout Lutheran who inscribed his manuscripts with 'S.D.G.' (*Soli Deo Gloria*), Bach composed over 200 church cantatas, the profound St Matthew Passion, the monumental Mass in B minor, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the encyclopedic Well-Tempered Clavier. In his final, blind months, he completed The Art of Fugue, leaving an unmatched contrapuntal legacy that Beethoven called 'not a brook [Bach], but an ocean'.

Key Life Milestones

11 April 1727 CE

Premiere of the St Matthew Passion

Conducted the historic Good Friday premiere of the St Matthew Passion at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.

1749 CE

Completion of the Mass in B minor

Finished compiling the universal Catholic Mass in B minor (BWV 232), the crowning choral achievement of Western civilization.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirche, Sanctuary Floor Tomb)
Leipzig (Saxony), Germany
GPS: 51.3392, 12.3725
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