Proof The Bible Is True

Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685. By age 10 his parents had died. At 18, Bach was a church organist, then held positions in royal courts.

In 1717, Bach was imprisoned because a duke in the city of Weimar did not want him employed elsewhere. Widowed with 7 children, he remarried and had 13 more.

Considered the “master of masters,” Johann Sebastian Bach’s works include:

Jesus, Meine Freude (Jesus, My Joy!)

Passion According to St. Matthew

Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day)

Easter Oratorio

Bach wrote more than 300 sacred cantatas, including:

Christ lag in Todes Banden (Christ lay in death’s bonds)

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A mighty fortress is our God)

Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God’s Time is the very best Time)

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

In “The Story of Mankind,” 1921, Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote: “By the middle of the 18th century the musical life of Europe was in full swing. Then there came forward a man who was greater than all others, a simple organist of the Thomas Church of Leipzig, by the name of Johann Sebastian Bach. In his compositions for every known instrument … to the most stately of sacred hymns and oratorios, he laid the foundation for all our modern music. When he died in the year 1750 he was succeeded by Mozart … then Ludwig van Beethoven.”

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