He spent most of his life as a church organist and a choir director. He wrote hundreds of pieces for organ, choir, as well as many other instruments. ![]() Most of his music, he wrote for himself, played for himself, in a small chamber in the castle… 300 years ago. He was employed as ‘Composer’ at an estate. When you think of Bach, say his Cello suites, you have to consider that most of his music wasn’t ‘popular’ when he wrote it. ![]() ![]() It comes from “Bach: Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974”, which is one of a total of 16 arrangements of Italian instrumental concertos for harpsichord solo. ![]() One reason many people are familiar with this adagio is that it appears in the movie ‘Fifty shades of Grey’… It’s Johann Sebastian BACH: Adagio, which is one of the most beautiful Adagios of the baroque period.
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