Bach Sheet Music

Bach Sheet Music and Biography

Johann Sebastian Bach was a very famous German composer of the Baroque period.

We have over 440 different arrangements of Bach’s works on the website. Whether you are looking for Anna Magdalena No. 7 for Clarinet, an abridged first movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.4 for mixed ensemble or bwv 1068 Air on G Cello and Piano you are sure to find something to suit you on music-scores.

Bach was from a creative family of musicians, teachers, composers, and church organists. He composed one thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight pieces of music, and an additional twenty-three were either unfinished or lost. He was very talented playing the organ, harpsichord, viola, and violin. 

Bach’s best-known works are The Well Tempered Clavier, Toccata, and Fugue in D Minor, Air on the G string, Goldberg variations, and Harpsichord concerto in D Minor to name a few. Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are amongst our favourites. You can find out more about the evolution of the cello on our blog post.

Why not listen to Bach’s ‘The Well Tempered Clavier’ on YouTube..

Family

Bach’s parents were Johann Ambrosius Bach and Maria Elisabeth Lammerhirt. His older brother Johann Christoph Bach was a pupil of Johann Pachelbel. However, by the age of ten, he was an orphan, his mother died when he was nine and his father died nine months later.

Bach married his second cousin Maria in 1707. She was the mother of seven of his children, but only four of them made it to adulthood. Then in 1720 whilst he was away Maria aged just thirty-five died suddenly. Can you believe that Bach returned from his trip to find his wife not just dead but buried!

Seventeen months later he married Anna Magdelena Wilcke, who was sixteen years his junior, they had a further thirteen children – only six of which made it to adulthood.

Did you know?

Bach enjoyed adding the numbers fourteen and forty-one to his music.

He was imprisoned by the Duke of Weimar due to his protests against his working conditions and resigned to take another post. Whilst in prison he composed part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier“, so maybe it wasn’t so bad.

Bach had twenty children, ten survived and four of these went on to have famous careers as composers.

Later Years

In 1750 Bach underwent an operation to fix his terrible eyesight, however, the operation left him completely blind. There is some debate as to whether his death was a result of the operation or a stroke caused by pneumonia at the age of sixty-five.

Bach Sheet Music Downloads & Further Reading

On music-scores.com we have over 440 different arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach Sheet Music in PDF format for you to download.

For further information take a look at Wikipedia or Britannica.