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Bach was a German organist and composer during the Baroque period. Unit resources. As a ten-year-old orphan [Johann Sebastian Bach] left Eisenach, where he was born, to live and study with his older brother Johann Christoph in a near-by town. The brothers were known by their second names. In large German families the same first name was sometimes given to more than one child.

Most of his material could not be bought but had to be copied from a score owned by a friend or relative. He used the village church for his organ study and acted as substitute when the regular organist was absent.

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All of this was what Sebastian Bach accepted as his normal life of study with Christoph…. His duties there took so much of his time that it is surprising he found hours in the day for composing. Several of the forty-six huge volumes that contain his complete works are devoted to church cantatas, written when he needed them for his choirs….

In spite of the fact that his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, his children, and his pupils did much of his music-copying for him, Bach overstrained his eyes and went blind. After that he dictated his compositions. Near the end of his life he created a series of fugues. He does not say which instruments are to perform them. These beautiful examples of polyphonic writing are called The Art of the Fugue; the series is unfinished….

This composition is often used as the close of the unfinished Art of the Fugue on the rare occasions when it is performed in public.