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Johann Sebastian Bach
At the Köthen Court ...
J. S. Bach was born in Eisenach om 1685, and died in 1750 at the age of 65. He first was employed as organist in Muhlhausen, in before in 1708 Bach took a position as court organist and concert master at the ducal court in Weimar. Here he had opportunity not only to play the organ but also to compose for it and play a more varied repertoire of concert music with the duke's ensemble. In 1717 Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthenhired Bach to serve as his Kapellmeister (director of music). This is where he created his best known example of fugal writing “The Well-Tempered Clavier” (part I) and the “Brandenbrug Concerts”. After the death of his first wife, Bach met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young soprano. They married on December 11, 1721 and had 13 children (six sons and seven daughters). For his wife and children, all of which were musically inclined, Bach wrote the three Notebooks. In 1723, J. S. Bach was appointed Cantor and Musical Director of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, thus ending his Köthen period during which Bach created the famous Brandenburg concerti as well as many other instrumental works, including the suites for solo cello, the sonatas and partitas for solo violin, and the orchestral suites, date from this period.
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