Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Organ Favourites
Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 552
Pastorale in F Major, BWV 590
Toccata in D Minor, BWV 565
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 548

Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of a family that had for generations been occupied in music. His sons were to continue the tradition, providing the foundation of a new style of music that prevailed in the later part of the eighteenth century. Johann Sebastian Bach himself represented the end of an age, the culmination of the Baroque in a magnificent synthesis of Italian melodic invention, French rhythmic dance forms and German contrapuntal mastery.

Born in Eisenach in 1685, Bach was educated largely by his eldest brother, after the early death of his parents. At the age of eighteen he embarked on his career as a musician, serving first as a court musician at Weimar, before appo