Author:
Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann
Format: Unabridged CD
Publisher: Naxos
Published: Dec 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers
Discs: 4
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