Johann Sebastian Bach
Leipzig (1723-1750) This period saw Bach’s choral music flourish and includes several full year cycles of cantatas which he wrote for each Sunday. Prior to this, he had been employed for the post of cantor at St. Thomas’ School in Leipzig. It was a position which he considered as an opportunity for free educational opportunities for his numerous talented children. His duties at St. Thomas’ School were much and it included teaching in the school and also supervising the music in four Liepzig Churches to which the school furnished choristers. Amidst all these, he still found out the time to direct a local music society choir, the Collegium Musicum, for which he composed and arranged a number of concertos and other secular music. This period, however, produced some important keyboard works which include Part II Of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the remarkable Clavierubung(“Keyboard Studies”), a four-volume series. At the end of his life, Bach’s eyesight completely failed. Nevert...