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Track: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach
Album: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
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Name: Johann Sebastian Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. A prolific German composer and organist, his sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the baroque genre and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. Many people consider him to be the greatest Baroque composer, and one of the greatest composers of all time. From 1723 until his death he was Thomascantor at Leipzig. Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, J.S. Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos, the keyboard suites and partitas, the Mass in B Minor, the St. Matthew Passion, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue and a large number of cantatas, of which about 220 survive. He died on July 28, 1750. Some of his sons also became composers - [a=Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach], [a=Johann Christian Bach], [a=Wilhelm Friedemann Bach] and [a=Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach].
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Discogs Release Info
Release: Grigori Sokolov*, J.S.Bach* - Aria And Variations ("Goldberg Variations"), BWV988
Year: 1982
Genres: Classical
Styles: Baroque