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THE GREATNESS OF J.S.BACH

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was arguably one of the most influential composers, organists, and pedagogues of all time. He surely can be considered as one of the greatest composers in the history of music. The features of D major Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier II, B flat major Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier I, the cantata "Ein feste Burge ist unser Gott", St. Matthew Passion, Clavierübung III, and" Musical Offering" will demonstrate his genius.

The first sign of his greatness is Bach's productivity. Although part of his compositions is lost, what has survived shows that his compositional output was far greater than any other composer who lived before or after him. In addition, Bach created music in almost all known genres of the time, except opera and ballet. However, his vocal works, such as St. Matthew Passion have elements of baroque opera (da capo arias). Furthermore, he composed instrumental and vocal, sacred and secular music.

Bach tends to exhaust all available possibilities within the piece. For example, D major Fugue from WTC II and Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit Clavierübung III show that he used all available pitches of the scale for the beginning of the subject, time and pitch intervals, and form of the subject. If one particular possibility was unavailable, he would modify the subject in order to imply that one entrance of the subject. In addition, as is evident from the Fugue in D major and Kyrie, Gott Vater, he draws a piece from a short idea from which everything is constructed. Bach used his musical ideas so economically, that it seems at times there is hardly any other motive besides the theme and countersubject.

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Dr. Vidas Pinkevicius [ Ссылка ] is a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (BA and MA degrees), Eastern Michigan University (MA degree, Prof. P. Ruiter-Feenstra) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (DMA degree in Organ Performance, Profs. Q. Faulkner and G. Ritchie). Currently he is the organist of Vilnius University, president and co-founder of the National Association of Organists in Lithuania, initiator of the educational project „The Organ for the Future of Lithuania," and a faculty member in music theory, piano, and improvisation at the M.K.Ciurlionis National Art School in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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