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“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” That is wisdom given by , one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1,000 of his compositions survive today. Some examples are the Art o ....

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.... organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph continued his younger brother’s education on the organ, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians, for example, the church choir, ....