Bach was born in Eisenach 1685 and died in Leipzig July 1750. He was born in a musician family. His father, Johann Ambrosuis Bach taught him violin and basic music theory as well as harpsichord. His father died when he was 10 years old and he kept learning organ with his brother Johann Christopher Bach who was a student of Pachelbel. Bach himself was an organist in church and court. In 1714 he became a concertmaster in Weimer when he wrote sacred cantatas. When he became a court music director in 1717 and composed solo and ensemble sonatas and pedagogical works. Bach moved to Leipzig in 1723 where he was in charge of many duties. He was in charge of four churches and was a director of Leipzig collegium musicum. This is when he wrote a huge number of religious music and concertos and chamber works. He taught many students Latin and music and composed keyboard music including pedagogical works. As director of the church, he composed, rehearsed and copied music for church services. He also wrote music for weddings, funerals and other ceremonies. …show more content…
He wrote pairs of prelude and fugue, fantasias, and five toccatas and more contrapuntally strict and complicated works such as chorale preludes and fugues. One of remarkable work is Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BMW 543). This piece follows typical of Bach’ practice w hich consists of two section which is virtuosic prelude and fugue with pedal points with imitation. Bach arranged lots of work from Vivaldi and get affected by his style. Violinistic figuration in the figuration can be considered as an influence from Vivaldi. The form of this piece resembles the structure of a concerto which was a specialized genre of Vivaldi, the fugue subject functions as the