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    Piano for early gradres

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    BACH “EARLY GRADES | from ek of ANNA MAGDALENE BACH Bacu FoR Earty GRADES BOOK I Compiled from ANNA MAGDALENE’S NOTE-BOOK By Bryceson Treharne Biographical Sketch by Laurence B, Ellert BOSTON MUSIC CO. Copyrieh, 1938, mm Music Co, © ye © copy mae 94 pre HERE is only one Bach” exelaimed Frederick the Grea he heard that master of oratorio, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, improvise on his pianofortes and organs at the palace in Potsdam ri in Bisenach, a Thuringian village in Germany, March 21, 1685, litle S s family: was known throughout the country as one of musicians, Between, scendants covered the four andfather. Veit Bach, a 1871, Bity-tw tions. His great-gre Svial miller. strummed his instrument and sang lustily while 1 yy mill-wheel was grinding Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius Bac pi t ize church musician, When the lad was nine 1 st his father, So his brother. Johann Christoph, fourteen year platens the orphans, He n Ohrdut, a thirty miles from Eisenach, and her hood at the Gyymna- Study liter gion an music. Tt was dif day's and Christoph aw eas f plied as choir buys at St. Michael's, Bach's facili Jing music and his lovely voi seed to remain, Besides ving a knowlege of church music he heard walk over to Ham d thirty miles te hear 1's give concerts. A fold that edly wishing he had the money t enter and parta ' we cooking aroma of whic appetit - Som Mealy, two herring heads were thrown out the window. Sebastian picked them up side cach mouth found a Mt 1 his hunger, he undoubtedly returned to Hamburg t 1 ured a position as organist in a new church at Arustadt where his sulazy, including allow ence for tel aid nd composing. Me began and Fugues. At the age of vusin Maria Barbara and ree to expand h to write those el twenty-two he a received a small usekeeping in Muhlhausen where he accepted a new post The environment cs he went tu Weimar, where he bad a choir of about twelve and a very subst me. Here at the court of Saye-Weimar Ine was made director of concerts and had to comp tata every month b jal pieces for b weddings, funerals A contest was arranged hy King Ferdinand in Dresiten between Bach and the eclebrated Marcha nist to Louis NV of France, On his arrival he heard Bach at practice, when it was time for the contest Marchand could not he found tel it was said that he had left Dresten hy fast coach, Bach was engages as Kappell-meister by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cithen. en stmament, Euereh ve packed up his family and moved to greater wpportunities. At Cithen he wrote the immortal “48 Preludes and Fug He frequently accompanied the Prince on journeys. Returning from one of the tours he learned that his wife, after a shot illuess, had died and was huried before he could he informed. Two of their ebildren. Wilhelm Friedmann and Carl Philipp Emmanuel breame famous musicians Tn 1721, he married @ musician, Anna Magadelena, wh bore him thirteen children, managed his household, e

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