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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Definition:one of the greatest of musical composers, born in Eisenach, of a family of Hungarian origin, noted—sixty of them—for musical genius; was in succession a chorister, an organist, a director of concerts, and finally director of music at the School of St. Thomas, Leipzig; his works, from their originality and scientific rigour, difficult of execution (1685-1750).Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)
image: By Elias Gottlob Haussmann - http://www.jsbach.net/bass/elements/bach-hausmann.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1270015music sample: by John Michel, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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At the concert in the afternoon two very interesting things were performed. One was a fantasia, King Lear; the other was a quartette dedicated to the memory of Bach.
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he felt only too certain that with the money which she had, or could easily procure, she would be able, all the same, to take a house at Bayreuth, since she wished to do so, she who was incapable of distinguishing between Bach and Clapisson.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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One time on maneuvers Billy was playing “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and words by Martin Luther.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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