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One of the world's greatest musicians and composers, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. Now you can sample the great master’s most spectacular works at no charge. Here’s your opportunity to download Bach music free. With a quick click on the player below, you can get a free Bach MP3 of one of his greatest works at no charge. Although he was known to his contemporaries as mainly an organist, a century after his death he would be recognized as a genius composer as well. You can recognize him too, when you download a favorite Bach MP3 on this page by clicking on the player below.

Johann Sebastian Bach Biography

Johann Sebastian Bach was orphaned by the age of 10, and brought up by his elder brother, Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721), an organist at Ohrdruf, who taught him the organ and clavier. He attended school in Lüneburg, before becoming organist at Arnstadt in 1703. He found his duties as choirmaster unfulfilling, and he angered the authorities by his innovative chorale accompaniments. In 1707 Bach married his cousin, Maria Barbara Bach (1684–1720), and left to become organist at Mühlhausen. In 1708 he transferred to the ducal court at Weimar, and in 1711 became Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, who was a big supporter of Bach’s music.

Bach music during his time as a court composer included the lsquo; Brandenburg’ Concertos (1721) and The Well-tempered Clavier (1722). Widowed in 1720, and left with four children, Bach married in 1721 Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701–60), and had 13 children by her, of whom six survived. In 1723 he was appointed cantor of the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where Bach’s music included about 300 church cantatas ranging from the St Matthew Passion (1727), to the Mass in B Minor. In failing health and almost totally blind, he died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750.

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