His large-scale sacred works include the Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B Minor.
His time in Weimar produced one of his lesser known compositions, Little Organ Book, which is a collection of chorale preludes. In his lifetime he composed over two hundred cantatas and over two hundred chorales. His large-scale sacred works include the Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B Minor. However, he may be best known for his keyboard works. Increasingly complex fugues are constructed on a simple theme in The Art of Fugue. Preludes are paired with fugues and cycle through all twenty-four keys in The Well-Tempered Clavier. FTP, name this prolific German composer and patriarch of a large musical family.          |
His time in Weimar produced one of his lesser known compositions, Little Organ Book, which is a collection of chorale preludes.
Johann Sebastian {Bach}