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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Violin, Antonio Vivaldi, Niccolo Paganini, Arnold Schoenberg, Camille Saint-Saens, Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Sebastian Bach, Josef Tal, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Eugene Ysaye, Teodorico Pedrini, Henri Vieuxtemps, Pablo de Sarasate, Giuseppe Tartini, Franti ek Drdla, Va a P ihoda, Henryk Wieniawski, Alessandro Rolla, Zoltan Paulinyi, Florizel von Reuter, Edward Ballantine, Edward Manukyan, Otto Funk, Edvard Fliflet Braein, Balabhaskar, Antonio Rolla, Luka Sorko evi, Andrea Zani, Bjarne Brustad, Oskar Rieding, Antonio Lolli, Francois Schubert, Ezra Jenkinson, William H. Potstock, August Duranowski. Excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685, O.S. - 28 July 1750, N.S.) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Partitas, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion, the Magnificat, the Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, the English and French Suites, the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the Cello Suites, more than 200 surviving cantatas, and a similar number of organ works, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, and the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes and Organ Mass. Bach's abilities as an organist wer..
