Johann Sebastian Bach is a well-known German Baroque composer. Many musicians consider him as a great musician and respect his greatness as a composer. He was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. Two days later, he was baptized in the Georgenkirche*(St. George church). He was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius and Elizabeth Lammerhirt Bach and he was the youngest of eight children and fourth generation of his family to become a musician. Bach’s musical career began he began to receive the Violin lesson from his father. In addition to his Violin lessons, he also began to play the Harpsichord and sang in the church choir. Before Bach turned age 10, his mother passed away. Seven months later, Bach’s father remarried to Dame …show more content…
When he was seven years old, he was baptized in the Christian faith. Mendelssohn’s grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn was the eighteenth century Jewish philosopher, but Felix Mendelssohn was not raised in that religion. Mendelssohn’s father wanted his children to be baptized into the Christian faith and change their name to Bartholdy. Mendelssohn’s father wanted to break Moses Mendelssohn’s Jewish tradition. However, Fanny, Mendelssohn’s sister wrote to their father that they did not like the name, Bartholdy. Mendelssohn and his family moved to Berlin, which was nice for Mendelssohn because he had received a piano lesson with Ludwig Berger and had composition with Karl Zelter. Additionally, as a child, he had a positive influence, as where most of his friends were intellectuals that were gifted in arts and cultural activities. It helped Mendelssohn to improve his talent in his music, art, and language. Mendelssohn was a traveler. He went to Paris with his sister, Fanny, to study more in his performance and compositional skills with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach. When Mendelssohn was seventeen years old, he composed a song “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which was considered one of the most beautiful pieces to come out of the Romantic period. In 1829, Mendelssohn graduated from Berlin University and continued his musical