Bach biography review worksheet
Reading comprehension worksheet using a brief biography of Johann Sebastian Bach.!
Reception of Johann Sebastian Bach's music
In the 18th century, the appreciation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music was mostly limited to distinguished connoisseurs.
The 19th century started with publication of the first biography of the composer and ended with the completion of the publication of all of Bach's known works by the Bach Gesellschaft.
Reading comprehension worksheet using a brief biography of Johann Sebastian Bach.
A Bach Revival had started from Mendelssohn's performance of the St Matthew Passion in 1829. Soon after that performance, Bach started to become regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, if not the greatest, a reputation he has retained ever since.
A new extensive Bach biography was published in the second half of the 19th century.
In the 20th century, Bach's music was widely performed and recorded, while the Neue Bachgesellschaft, among others, published research on the composer.
Modern adaptations of Bach's music contributed greatly to his popularisation in the second half of the 20th century. Among these were the Sw