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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia, Germany where

he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses, he was confined

to a very limited geographical space, as was his career. This greatly affected his, in that

his music was not as widley known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never

went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life

of Bach many have referred to him as "one of the greatest and most productive geniuses in

the history of Western music", particularly of the baroque era.

Born to a family that produced at least 53 prominent musicians within seven

generations, Bach received his first musical instrument from his father. Johann studied

music with his father until his father's death in 1695, at which point he moved to Ohrdruf

to study with his brother, Johann Christoph. In the early 1700's Bach began working......

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