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People In Music History
Bach, German composer (1685-1750). Bach was a prolific composer, as required of
his post as official church organist and musical director of St. Thomas's
Church. Bach was part of a very musical family, including his uncle Johann
Christoph Bach (an organist also), and his second wife Anna Magdalena (a music
transcriber and instructor). Bach fathered 20 children, not all of whom
survived. Of his surviving children, 3 achieved some success as musicians: Karl
Philipp Emanuel Bach, an appointed musician of Frederick the Great, soon
followed his father's footsteps and became a church organist also; Johann
Christian Bach, a composer who eventually settled in England; and Wilhelm
Friedemann Bach, eldest son and least known of the Bachs, he was mainly an
instructor of music. Some of J.S. Bach's works include the Brandenberg
Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, and his cantatas.