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The Bach family were as immersed in musical scene of the early 1700s are the Kardashians are in reality TV today. Where would you fit in with this group of musical masters? 
Join <a href="http://www.baroque.org/" target="_blank">Music of the Baroque</a> for J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Chicago on November 30 and December 1.

The Bach family were as immersed in musical scene of the early 1700s are the Kardashians are in reality TV today. Where would you fit in with this group of musical masters? 
Join Music of the Baroque for J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Chicago on November 30 and December 1.

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You are J.S. Bach! Regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. Bach brought to majestic fruition the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance. By and large a musical conservative, he achieved remarkable heights in the art of fugue, choral polyphony and organ music, as well as in instrumental music and dance forms. His adherence to the older forms earned him the nickname "the old wig" by his son, the composer Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, yet his music remained very much alive and was known and studied by the next generation of composers.

J. S. Bach

You are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach! C. P. E. Bach was born to Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara. The composer Georg Philipp Telemann was his godfather. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. He was known as the "Berlin Bach" or the "Hamburg Bach".

Carl Phillip Emmanuel (C.P.E.) Bach

You are Anna Magdalena Bach! Anna married J.S. Bach on December 3, 1721, at the age of 20 (he was 36). Together they raised the children from his first marriage and had 13 children of their own. Anna was a singer and their shared interest in music contributed to a happy marriage. During the Bach family's time in Leipzig, Anna Magdalena organized regular musical evenings featuring the whole family playing and singing together with visiting friends. She regularly worked as a copyist, transcribing her husband's music. Recently, it has been suggested that Anna Magdalena Bach composed several musical pieces bearing her husband's name.

Anna Magdalena Bach

You are heavy metal rocker Sebastian Bach! Sebastian Philip Bierk , known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987-96. Sebastian Bach was born in The Bahamas and was raised in Canada. In August 2011 his New Jersey home was damaged by Hurricane Irene and declared uninhabitable. Several Kiss and Skid Row artifacts, including Skid Row master tapes, were destroyed but his father's art, comic books, and the KISS gargoyles from their 1979 tour were salvaged. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted in Broadway plays, and leads a solo career.

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