Johann Sebastian Bach

Askblog and information bank of the great Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). I was born in Eisenach, Thurungia, Germany on the 21st of March, 1685. Through my life I lived and worked in many places across germany. You are welcome to ask me anything about my life and my music.

[c-u-r-s-e-d-i-m-a-g-e-s]

[papabach]

I, as a teacher, can honestly say that this is how it was 99% of the time

[annoyingaltosaxophone]

Signs that your apartment is occupied by music majors:

“hey what should we put in this picture frame?”

“idk maybe 21 photos of bach”

[papabach]

😊

[theorchestraroom]

Conductor: Okay so mark that in your parts.

The entire orchestra: *Multiple people are pretending to write with their non existent pencil. A singular pencil makes its journey through three sections. Once again, no one brought a pencil.*

[papabach]

Mun's choir director had her own batch of pencils for this exact reason, and one of them had my signature on it so mun stole it when she left the choir.

[prokopetz]

As a piano nerd, allow me to reassure you that the reason that many Classical keyboard compositions sound terrible to you isn’t because you lack the background to properly appreciate them. I mean, you do lack the background to properly appreciate them, but they’re also objectively terrible, and the fact that you need the proper background to understand them is big part of why they’re terrible. They’re so preoccupied with demonstrating the technical skill of the performer that they totally forgot about actually sounding good, producing pieces that are comprehensible only to other keyboardists. And even we don’t really enjoy them – we just play them to torture ourselves, because all serious keyboardists are also masochists.

[papabach]

Or you could do both and torture yourself while sounding good at the same time, Papi has you covered!

[papabach]

Glædelig international tuba dag 🎉🎶

Some international tuba-day love from the Danish Navy Orchestra. Tubas may not have been invented in my day, but they deserve love like any brass instrument (despite the choleric nature of all brass instruments). Love from Papi ❤

[imagineyourhistoricalfigure]

Imagine your favorite historical figure holding a baby

[kt-mozart-official]

*g a s p*

DAD @wolfgangamademozart–official

HOW DID IT FEEL HOLDING WOWICHAN

[wolfgangamademozart--official]

BBY HHHHHHHH

[mozart-fx-official]

dad are you ok

[papabach]

I've had 20 kids and holding them was legit my favourite hobby after drinking coffee, why did they all grow up so fast 😭

[flute110]

you: who’s your favourite composer

me: mm i love me some clawed the boo sea

you: i’ve never heard of him!

me: or pole hinder mitt

you: who

me: or fee licks mend else on

you: ???

me: head fart greek

you:

me: heck tore barely owes

me: jewel mass a neigh

me: or to rain oh rest pee gay

me: hair rick wit tucker

me: are am catch at oar ian

me: salt and cow dye

me: john willy hams

me: bell a bar took

me: yo hand a may

me: hen rye purse hell

me: cammy san sons

me: leigh oh dell leaves

me: and tony oh viviality

me: pole duke has

me: france juice F. hiding

me: art oar oh markers

me: lend burns time

me: duh meet rye shots her cove itch

me: and tonne brick nor

me: bed riches met anna

me: me kyle gull inker

me: john sir bail he us

me: all hicks under glass urn off

me: rich hard S. trounce

me: yo hannah’s bra mmmmmmmmmmmmms

me: ant on in vore jack

me: sir gay pro coffee elf

me: rich hard walk nor

me: free the rick shopping

me: fee licks mend L. son

me: sir gay rack man in off

me: lay uphold moats art

me: more E’s rave L.

me: car L. kneel son

me: purse E. grange her

me: sea pee E. bark

me: loo E. spore

me: france shoe Bert

me: loo twig fan bait hoe Venn

me: all ban beg

me: goo staff holts

me: john add hams

me: robe hurt shoe man

me: aah! run cope land

me: do my neck oh scar latte

me: yo hand the bass tea and bark

me: hill the guard fan bing in

me: head ward L. gore

me: goo staff marlboro

me: peter ill itch chai cough ski

me: wolf gang am a day us moats art

me: E. gore strap fins key

you:

me:

you:

me:

you:

me: hbu

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

you: this post is years old let it die

me, an intellectual: tag yourself i’m sir gay pro-coffee elf

[papabach]

If anyone's a pro-coffeee elf, it's old yo hand the bass tea and bark here

[five-flats]

a question for classical music tumblr

have i just not been seeing posts, or is classical music tumblr kinda dead atm? i miss all of the shitposting and the official-composer blogs and various carps etc. what happened??

[papabach]

Mod says life. I can't agree with that, as I am dead.

[classical-crap]

me: I have a question

my music theory professor: what is it?

me, pointing to a bach chorale: what is happening

[papabach]

What is happening is me being very smart, keep up Bachling!

[gmmmtv]

[papabach]

Cannot count how many times I've said this with my kids

[chica-bg]

[elly-fant]

Sounds like a plan

[papabach]

Go

Practice

Kindlein

Papa loves you ❤

[violalife]

good morning from behind my bach

[papabach]

Don't sneak up on me like that!

[mariaarnt]

peep my squad

tag yourself, I’m Bae.

[tuneoftyourdeath]

I just choked on my oboe

[papabach]

You heard it here first, kindlein, I am always right

Always

[classicalshits]

[papabach]

Yes they be

[classical-crap]

typos from the music library

for reference, at the music library I worked at the past year, we used an excel spreadsheet to keep track of everything. I had to sort through a bunch of music that needed to be filed away, but it was difficult to find things if there were typos in the spreadsheet. I spent about an hour correcting these before I realized that it might be funny to compile all of them. so, this is what remained after I had already spent an hour correcting typos:

-Paul Hindermith

-Franzm Biber

-Enrique Grandos

-Aaron Coplan

-GF Handle

-Johann Sebastian Bachm

-Johann Sebastan Bach

-Johan Sebastian Bach

-Johann Sebatison Bach

-Johnan Sebatsion Bach

-Johana Sebastian Bach (one of the past music librarians really had trouble with this one)

-viola spelled as “violin” accidentally a few times because of viola erasure

-JS Bath

[papabach]

I appreciate the sheer random dedication it must have taken to get my name wrong so many times in so many different ways

Love Johnan Sebatsion

[jeanmjacket]

u ever just get in a Bach mood?

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

it’s called life bitch

[papabach]

This just in: I am life

[carcassi-studies]

“It’s wrong because Bach said it was wrong and you don’t mess with Bach”

— My AP Music Theory Teacher

[papabach]

This music teacher has seen the light