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Johann Sebastian Bach and Francesco Cavalli

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for his masterpieces of church and instrumental music representing the best of the Baroque era. He composed over 1,000 pieces, including famous works like the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and Mass in B Minor. Bach was born into a musical family and became an orphan, later having 20 children, several of whom became composers as well. Francesco Cavalli was the most influential opera composer after Monteverdi in mid-17th century Venice, writing 33 operas using a small orchestra to suit public opera houses, 27 of which are preserved in Venice's National Library.

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Johann Sebastian Bach and Francesco Cavalli

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for his masterpieces of church and instrumental music representing the best of the Baroque era. He composed over 1,000 pieces, including famous works like the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and Mass in B Minor. Bach was born into a musical family and became an orphan, later having 20 children, several of whom became composers as well. Francesco Cavalli was the most influential opera composer after Monteverdi in mid-17th century Venice, writing 33 operas using a small orchestra to suit public opera houses, 27 of which are preserved in Venice's National Library.

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Johann Sebastian Bach and Francesco Cavalli

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. He is celebrated
as the creator of many masterpieces of church and instrumental music. His compositions
represent the best of the Baroque era.

born March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies
[Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed over 1,000 pieces of music. Some of his most famous work
included the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Mass in B Minor.
From an early age, Bach studied the works of his musical contemporaries of the Baroque period
and those of prior generations, and those influences were reflected in his music. Like his
contemporaries Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi, Bach composed concertos, suites, recitatives, da
capo arias, and four-part choral music and employed basso continuo. Bach's music was
harmonically more innovative than his peer composers, employing surprisingly dissonant chords
and progressions, often with extensive exploration of harmonic possibilities within one piece.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family. Orphaned before he turned 10 years old,
he was looked after by his eldest brother, an organist who gave him his first keyboard lessons.
Bach did well at school, and he was selected for a choir of poor boys at the school in
Michaelskirche, Lüneburg, Germany.
On October 17, 1707, Johann Sebastian Bach married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach at
Dornheim. After Maria died Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, the daughter of a
trumpeter at Weissenfels, on December 3, 1721.
Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second wife. Only
10 of them lived to adulthood. Several of his sons, including Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp
Emanuel, and Johann Christian, who was called the “English Bach,” were also composers.
Francesco Cavalli

Italian composer Francesco Cavalli, born Feb. 14, 1602, Crema, Republic of Venice [Italy]—
died Jan. 14, 1676, Venice, was the most performed opera composer of the generation after
Monteverdi and a key figure of musical life in 17th-century Venice.

Cavalli was the most influential composer in the rising genre of public opera in mid-17th-
century Venice. Unlike Monteverdi's early operas, scored for the extravagant court orchestra of
Mantua, Cavalli's operas make use of a small orchestra of strings and basso continuo to meet the
limitations of public opera houses.

Works. Cavalli wrote thirty-three operas, twenty-seven of which are still extant, being
preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Library of St Mark) at Venice. Copies of some
of the operas also exist in other locations.

References:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francesco-Cavalli

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