Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Trio Sonatas
Sonata No.4 in E Minor, BWV 528
Sonata No.5 in C Major, BWV 529
Sonata No.6 in G Major, BWV 530
Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

Johann Sebastian Bach made his early reputation as an organist. The son of a town and court musician, Johann Ambrosius Bach, he owed much of his early training, after the death of his parents, to his brother, Johann Christoph, organist at Ohrdruf, and began his career as organist at Arnstadt at the age of eighteen, moving to Mühlhausen four years later and in 1708 winning appointment as organist and chamber musician to Duke Wilhelm Ernst at Weimar, the elder of the two rulers of the duchy.

Bach's later career took him in 1717 to Cöthen as Hofkapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold, a position that involved him rather in secular music, owing to the Pietist leanings of the court. His patron's marriage to a woman without cultural in