Death Anniversary: Johann Sebastian Bach — July 28, 1750
He died in Leipzig on 28 July 1750 after twenty-seven years as Thomaskantor and director musices of the city’s four principal Lutheran churches. His monumental output, including the Passions, the Mass in B minor, the Goldberg Variations and The Art of Fugue, represents the supreme synthesis of European baroque polyphony.
Dates verified on Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 978-0393048254, pp. 15-42; Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Bach digital authority record (https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalPerson_agent_00000001).
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