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I am going to tell about Johann Sebastain Bach. You say it like Yohan Sebastain boc, but it is spelled Bach.
When Bach was born in Germany. He liked singing and music. When he was 9 years old his Mom and Dad died and he went and lived with his brother Christoph. Christoph was grown up and maried and he had his own house. Bach was only aloud to practice on the keyboard 1 hour a day. There was a big black book full of hard songs. Christoph wouldn't let Bach get the book becuase he said it was to hard even though Bach wanted harder songs. At night one night Bach crept to were the book was an got it and he coppied out of it. He did that for 6 months intill he was done. He played the songs he coppied and when his brother found out what he did. He took the coppies away from Bach. Bach was sad. but when he played on the piano he remembered them!!! He was happy. He heard of a singing school in Luneburg. Bach and his friend Erdmann walked 200 miles to get there. When they got there they went in and they got to stay there and they ate dinner. Bach was very happy. He read abunch of music books and he sang and everything! 3 years later Bach lost his good singing voice. Bach started playing the organ. He had organ lessons. He wrote a song called Minuet. He was a VERY GOOD organ player. He heard of a famous organ player in a differant city and he traveled along way to hear him play. While Bach was traveling he made up a song called March. When he got there he listened to the famous organ player named Reinken play. When he was going to to the singing school he got hungry and he was sitting under a window by a resteraunt door and he didn't have anough money to have a a meal in the resteraunt . But then the window opened above him and some money dropped down. He had anough money to buy himself a meal now. He went inside and he ate a meal. When he got back to the singing school he got a letter asking him to come to the Duke's Palace in Weimar. So Bach was really excited and traveled there. When he got there he played everyday and he got alot older. He got maried to a girl named Maria Barbara. He still played then too. He went to his own home and then Maria Barbara got very sick and died. So he got married to another girl named Magdalena. He had 20 kids!!!! THATS ALOT!!!
Well, Maybe I can tell you more about Bach later but right now I have to go. Bye ~*~Piano4Ever~*~ |