'Bach wasn't just industrious in music' I literally laughed out loud 😂

I think we know a lot about Bach as a person; one thing that wasn't mentioned in this video (which, respectfully, should have been mentioned) was Bach's deep religious conviction. He was a devout Lutheran Christian and commended his music to God. That is why so much of his music is filled with a deep spirituality. And although Baroque music wasn't as emotionally raw as Romantic music, you can hear profound and controlled emotion in many of Bach's seminal pieces: his Chaconne (from Partita No.2 in D minor for violin) is widely considered one of the greatest pieces for solo violin, and was composed shortly after Bach learned of the death of Maria Barbara Bach. So we actually have quite a complex man-- yes, temperamental, strong-willed and stubborn. He was also a delinquent in his youth and was known to get into fights. However, he was deeply devoted to Lutheran Christianity, devoted to his music, a strict and attentive father, and a man affected by loss throughout his life: he lost both his parents, his siblings, his first wife and 10 of his 20 children. That's a lot of grief, which he channelled into his music.

Bach isn't just one of the greatest composers. He IS the greatest composer of all time.

He is the greatest composer of all time.

"Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret." Bach

Bach is not an ordinary musician.To me he is the most genius musician.

"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat." - Bach

I love his compositions. And there are so many of them. I have been listening to him for many years, and still haven't heard all of them.

I have travelled the bach trail, visiting all the place associated with him, Inc the museum in leipzig.

He had a crazy life but I love hearing his music!

Skipping through all the details, Bach was innovative in 2 ways: the first was the idea of Well-Tempered Clavier or well-tuned keyboard. Keyboard tuners tended to do a good job on the natural keys but not the sharps & flats. Keyboard used to be painted the other way around with the 7 natural keys as black and 5 sharps/flats as white. He intentionally wrote 1 piece for every music key to make the point every key on the keyboard needs to be properly tuned. The other is putting the keyboard as a solo instrument in a concerto. Before him, there was a lot of Concerto Grossos out of Italy featuring more than 1 solo instruments. Vivaldi wrote many concertos featuring 1 instrument but the keyboard was usually in the background to accompany the ensemble (as continuo). The 1 piece that stands out was the Brandenburg Concerto #5 in the first movement there is a keyboard solo cadenza near the end where the keyboard would perform an entire section of music without accompaniment. Solo cadenzas became common with later composers like Mozart but not at all during the Baroque. The 1 type of composition that is much more synonymous with Bach than any other composer is the fugue. These are compositions with several similar melodies coming in and out at different times to form interesting harmonies. They were mainly performed on an organ but many have been transcribed as orchestral pieces with different instruments playing different parts. Dmitri Shostakovich was inspired by Bach and composed fugues. Bach's music was hidden away in the attic somewhere in Germany for many years. In the 19th century he was rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn in the 19th century. The 1 piece that inspired Mendelssohn was the St. Matthew Passion when he wrote the Italian Symphony.

Bach was a Badass!!

You're the best. I needed information on Bach to do an essay and books where not help in, I didnt understand anything and I found your video and it helped a lot. Thank you for making this video.

Great video, fun to watch and the info is all there. I'll be checking out some of your other videos!

You really make the best classical music 🎶 videos!! Very informative and entertaining at the same time. Thank you 😊

I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you, because your videos are so interesting and helpful! I seriously can´t understand why you are not more recognised where and out-there! A seriously big shout-out to you!

keep up the good work this channel is seriously undersubscribed its like crash course history plus piano blog

You’re amazing.! I love the way you tell the history, also you add linked videos explaining other things related to the main subject, so people can really have a better understanding of it. Thank you so much! I will start piano lessons soon. God. Bless You! 🤗

Thank you so much for this!! I'm really struggling in my music theory class but I was able to retain all the info about Bach in this video :))

thank you for this video ! I love polyphonic music...and I learned a lot today !!!

Amazing and he loved God and was His instrument on earth!

Thank you very much for your playful way of Bach history telling. I love the composer so much. His music always caressing existence in the most deep and beautiful way.

Bach was awesome as a musician! A great legend!

Thank you for taking the time and effort to teach us about Bach's history. I've learned a lot from this video! Hope that you continue to post such amazing content on your channel. Just subscribed!

Bach's music makes me cry it's so beautiful

Awesome video as usual. Thanks for sharing!

Just stumbled on this video. Very good job researching, and thank you for not dumbng down your little history. Instant sub !

Most often we only see the finished product when watching musicians play at concerts. We don't realize the hardwork, perseverance and failures they went through before they perfected their performance.

I can highly recommend John Eliot Gardiner’s fantastic biography on Bach ‘Music in the Castle of Heaven’. It is a great read.

one more fact to add to you video, which by the way is very good: Bach pieces don't have a time signature, therefore the current renditions can't actually be called too slow or too fast. Keep up the good work!

Speaking of Baroque composers, I would like to see a video on Scarlatti. :D

So helpful!!! Thank you--I teach elementary music in public school--I needed a few more Bach Facts :)

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Thanks for the video! Well done. I used it in my high school music appreciation class.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your videos ^_^

I love your work, dear young precious lady

Thanks so much for this video! I am learning to play one of his Minuets song which I like so much! And felt some curiosity to know a bit of his bio! Thank you!I will see more of your content!

I am currently studying for my music history final exam....and I have been watching all your videos on the composers and periods we have discussed. Thank you! I love them.

Thank you - I learned a few new things and thoroughly enjoyed your animated delivery.

This was delightful. Thank you.

Has anyone told you that those creative little images you edited, and your computer drawings are gold? I love them!

This is awesome thank you!!

Thanks so much for making this video! Very well made and insightful, and a huge help to me studying for my exam :)

I love these history/biography videos! You're pretty much a pianist's dream girl lol

I thought I knew a bit about old JS, but the dagger fight was a new one on me. Live and learn!

I am so happy to learn Mr. Bach wasn’t nearly as well tempered as his clavier. Thank you!

Great videos, thanks!

I'm writing a little miniature assignment for school and this was so helpful, thank you! :D

thank you. music becomes more interesting when the historic dimension is added.

Thanks so much for this! I love that you include maps and photos of the places JS worked and performed, let alone his employers! Must have taken ages to put this together! Great job!

You're awesome!

needed this for my music history essay. really helps!!!

Interestingly, while Bach was deeply revered as a composerby other composers and connaiseurs early on, during his life time he was mostly known for his organ performances. Looks like then and now, it took some time to get a knack for his polyphonic weave. As I was younger, this weave sounded to me mostly like a more or less uniform texture - while other composers of his time, like Haendel, had more rhythmic diversity to offer. But at some point, I clicked into his intricate interaction between melody lines and fell in love with his music completely ever since.

Excellent information to diggest with my coffe this morning ,,suscribed 😜

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Bach was born 4 years after the term "Well Tempered" first appeared in print regarding the new tunning system allowing for all 12 musical keys on the keyboard to be playable without retuning. Like today!NOW this fact is important because that "new" availability of all those pesky subversive notes outside the key provided the basis for the next 300 yrs of musical evolution which absolutely could not have taken place otherwise. Bach's great genius is demonstrated by the fact that he is the "only" Baroque Composer to appreciate and fully embrace this new astounding universe of chromatic possibilities. Not Vivaldi not Handle not Correlli not Telleman etc. Bach entitled one of his towering compendiums of compositional genius The Well Tempered Clavier Books l & ll knowing full well what he was doing. 48 preludes and fugues in all 12 keys both major and minor. Each piece an exploration of harmonic and polymelodic possibility in itself. Some of these pieces establish certain kinds of advanced uses of harmony not to be revisited untill the late 19th century. Check out WTC ll #22 in Bb minor Gould calls it a harmonic masterpiece. But there are many more for various reasons. So Bach set the stage for the rest of Western European Art Music. So that the next 250 yrs could accuratly be discribed as a ,composer driven high speed power dive into higher and higher levels of chromaticism eventually generating the 20th century crisis in tonality leading to the modernism of Schoenberg and alternatively Stravinsky. So it was Bach who let the Chromatic cat outa the bag so to speak. If I wet your whistle and you want to pursue this subject further then Type in (The Unanswered Question by Leonard Bernstein lecture one Phonology there are 6 1973 lectures all orbiting these ideas) all free on You Tube on various channels.

This was very very very helpful thank you so much

Thanks 🙏

I love this channel , and you .... so cool !!!!! ;D

You’re a great storyteller. Thank you!

To me, Bach laid down the blueprints of Western music. Some of his pieces are al most Etudes of scales, harmony and counterpoint that we still use today.

"Bach pulled a dagger on him" -- Woah, looks like "J.S." didn't play around!

Well done. I learned a lot.

A friend of mine works in an orchestra, and says that bassoon players are notoriously badass. Strings and conductors rarely make eye contact with them for fear of keeping harmony in the group.

I have more videos to watch but piano tv first!

This was fascinating to watch! You really know your stuff and I love how passionate you are. What a cool channel. :)

Another great example as to how someone should never conform in anything... but rather go to the beat of their own drum in order to make a difference in life.

When i first heard that you call him J.S. I thought to myself "that's sound like he's gangster" then after the dagger fight i thought to myself "man, he's gangster" 🤣

I love your videos! The details about Bach's personality were fascinating. "Upon the whole it appears, that great talents are great energies, and that great energies cannot flow but from a powerful sense of fitness and justice. A man of uncommon genius, is a man of high passions and lofty design; and our passions will be found, in the last analysis, to have their surest foundation in a sentiment of justice. If a man be of an aspiring and ambitious temper, it is because at present he finds himself out of his place, and wishes to be in it. Even the lover imagines, that his qualities, or his passion, give him a title superior to that of other men. If I accumulate wealth, it is because I think that the most rational plan of life cannot be secured without it; and, if I dedicate my energies to sensual pleasures, it is that I regard other pursuits as irrational and visionary. All our passions would die in the moment they were conceived, were it not for this reinforcement. A man of quick resentment, of strong feelings, and who pertinaciously resists everything that he regards as an unjust assumption, may be considered as having in him the seeds of eminence. Nor is it easily to be conceived, that such a man should not proceed, from a sense of justice, to some degree of benevolence; as Milton's hero felt real compassion and sympathy for his partners in misfortune." William Godwin

Keep making videos. Thanks!

Congrats on 30K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your video's are so good and you deserve it!!!!!!! This is so random, but your eyes are so pretty!!!!!

very interesting - I will watch the other videos soon. Classical music is above all other types of music, no lyrics are needed to convey any emotion.

wow thanks so much!!

"You ought to have been a cobbler!" xD best diss ever.

Really good!

Bach was metal. Awesome channel. Thank you!

how about a brief history of J P Rameau? baroque legend and keyboard meister

This channel is so good.

I love your channel

Hi I love your video series I know this is late but if you could please do a video on Mahler I would really appreciate it thanks.

Loved your presentation! By chance, would you happen to have any insight as to when and where our dearly beloved Bach would’ve composed and performed his magnificent Toccata in F, BWV 540?

THIS PRESENTATOR SUCCESSFULLY ILLUSTRATES MANY IDEAS IN A LIVELY AND NON INTELLECTUAL BORING MANNER HER SPEAKING RHYTHM IS VERY ENGAGING AND POSATIVE.

Good video and good speaker.

Love your channel

love all the cute lil animations ;)

If this video helped with my last minute cramping of my music exams, I'll update you :D Jokes THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

There should be a movie about this!!!

I noticed your subs are exactly 5k, woohoo! Piano tv grows fast! :D

Would you be able to do a brief history of Ravel?

you're so awesome =)

I find it difficult to decide between Bach and Beethoven as to who was the greatest, but Bach had that spiritual dimension that especially moves the heart and speaks to the soul.

You are very cool!

This really helps History 1 students

you are a wonderfull comunicattor. Learning a lot with you and your chanell. I'm portuguese so excuse my englIsh mistakes, Regards

Thank you for sharing! I did not know Bach had eye surgery. I'm sure Bach kept an eye on the quack surgeon ;)

Talent is just one part of the equation. You have to be industrious(hardworking) as well.

Watching your channel for since 2016 and a millennial back in 90s in elementary school and middle school they tought a kids version of the personal life the composers back in 90s early 2000s you had to go the library to get books research on the internet no Wikipedia

Great video, thanks Allysia. I would like to do some further reading, could you recommend some books? Where did you learn about what you have discussed in this video? Thanks!

I really enjoy learning from you. Just one correction though: Well-tempered Klavier -- in German "Klavier" is pronounced like "klaveer" not like "klavieya". Thanks

This is great! Please make more of these videos. Could you do Claude Debussy next? Debussy is my favourite composer :)