Bach by Jeremy Siepmann Paperback Book

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Author: Jeremy Siepmann

Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann

Format: Unabridged CD

Publisher: Naxos

Published: Dec 2003

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers

Discs: 4

Synopsis

Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his 20 children. For the last 27 years of his life he was a schoolteacher and choir director whose duties extended to meal supervision and dormitory inspection. Yet throughout his career he composed a vast body of music, which is amongst the most joyful, dancing and enrapturing ever written. Thi

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