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January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach.He is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart.Life
Johann Christian Bach was born on September 5, 1735 to Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena Bach in Leipzig, Germany.He lived in Italy for many years starting in 1756, first studying with Padre Martini in Bologna and later with Giovanni Battista Sammartini.During his time in Italy he converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism.He met soprano Cecilia Grassi in 1766 and married her shortly thereafter.She was about eight years older than Johann Christian and, perhaps because of this, they never had children.He enjoyed a promising career, first as a composer then as a performer playing alongside Karl Friedrich Abel, a notable player of the viola da gamba.Bach's music at the expense of that of his sons; Phillip Spitta claimed towards the end of his J.Johann Christian Bach is of some historical interest as the first composer who preferred the piano to older keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord.Bach
Johann Christian Bach's father died when Johann Christian was only fifteen, perhaps one reason why it is difficult to find points of similarity between the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and that of Johann Christian.Bach and the symphony
The symphonies in the Work List for J.Using comparative duration as a rough means of comparison, consider that a standard recording of one of Bach's finest symphonies, Op.Hungarian Haydn Orchestra) lasts 23 minutes and 43 seconds.It is clear that the listener of J.Concert halls today are frequently filled with the music of Haydn, and comparatively rarely with that of J.The Halstead recording mentioned above is part of a complete survey of this composer's orchestral works on 22 CDs for the record label CPO, and the complete works of J.Bach have now been published in The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach.Legacy
A full account of J.Charles Burney's History of Music.Bach's music highly and arranged three sonatas from the latter's Op.Further reading
Ernest Warburton, "Johann Christian Bach," in Christoph Wolff et al.The New Grove Bach Family.The New Bach Reader, NY: Norton, 1998.External links
Article: "Gainsborough and Music" by Brian Robins
Free scores by Johann Christian Bach in the Werner Icking Music Archive
Johann Christian Bach was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
Flute sonatas, W.Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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