Johann Sebastian Bach
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Meet and be inspired by a musical genius, as Johann Sebastian Bach tells his own incredible story in this fascinating eStory from The Amazing People Club®. Born into a musical family, he was taught by his father and his uncle using a huge variety of instruments. Johann became a brilliant multi-instrumentalist and a highly respected organist and teacher of music. Though his compositions were not given the respect they were due in his lifetime, Bach’s work was an enormous inspiration for the great composers who followed him. Beethoven described Johann Sebastian Bach as ‘the original father of harmony’. Follow Bach’s incredible life journey and learn how he came to change the face of music forever.
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