Bach
Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. This topic is part of Classical Music within Music. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Bach trivia questions
Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer from which country?
Answer: Germany
Bonus fact: Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685.
Bach is especially associated with which musical era?
Answer: Baroque
Bonus fact: He is one of the central figures of Baroque music.
Which Bach work consists of 24 preludes and fugues in each of two books?
Answer: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Bonus fact: The collection explores all major and minor keys.
In what year did Johann Sebastian Bach arrive in Leipzig to become Thomaskantor?
Answer: 1723
Bonus fact: Bach-Archiv Leipzig says Bach arrived in May 1723 and began an extraordinarily productive period of weekly composition.
Which composer was one of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's godfathers?
Answer: Georg Philipp Telemann
Bonus fact: Bach-Archiv Leipzig notes that C. P. E. Bach was born in Weimar in 1714 and received his musical education from his father.
Johann Christian Bach was which son of Johann Sebastian Bach?
Answer: His youngest son
Bonus fact: Bach-Archiv Leipzig says Johann Christian was born in Leipzig in 1735 and later continued his studies with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
In what year was the Leipzig Bach Archive founded?
Answer: 1950
Bonus fact: The Bach Archive was founded on November 20, 1950, the 200th anniversary year of Johann Sebastian Bach's death.
Which song on the album satirizes advertising and commercialism by adapting Bach?
Answer: A Simple Desultory Philippic
Bonus fact: The album shows the duo moving beyond straightforward folk into more ambitious studio arrangements.
Which composer wrote the Brandenburg Concertos?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Bonus fact: Bach is one of the defining Baroque composers.
Which Baroque composer is especially famous for fugues?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Bonus fact: Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier contains many preludes and fugues.
Who composed Brandenburg Concertos?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Bonus fact: Collection of six instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Who composed the Goldberg Variations recorded by pianist Glenn Gould in 1955?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Bonus fact: Glenn Gould recorded the Goldberg Variations again in 1981.