Six Interesting Facts about Johann Sebastian Bach [Video]

Dubbed “the Homer of Music”, Johann Sebastian Bach was recognized as the greatest master of harmony and counterpoint of all time—for harmony is to music “what logic is to philosophy, draughtsmanship to painting, and mathematics to architecture,” wrote T. C. W Blanning in The Triumph of Music.

His devotion to the Christian God and the Lutheran tradition, which had a high demand for religious music, put sacred music at the center of his repertory: according to the Bach-Werke Verzeichnis compiled by Wolfgang Schmiedler, there are 224 cantatas (BWV 1-224); 25 large scale choral works including his Passions; 275 chorales and sacred song (BWV 250-524) and 224 organ works ( BVW 525-748).

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