The history of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician and composer among the greatest, are that of a simple and reserved man that entirely lived for his/her job and for his numerous family. Its name became famous only fifty years after the death, when the enormous production, matured in long years of methodic and silent job, it was rearranged and it was given to the presses. Since then the figure of Bach towers in the field of the music. Born in Germany, to Eisenach, in 1685, Bach performed the first studies to the school of St. Michael. Child of a musician, had from his father the first teachings that allowed him, finished the studies, to settle himself near the court of Celle, where the princess of Olbreuse entertained forced French musicians to the exile from the religious persecutions that tore to pieces the country in that years.

Bach had two wives and twenty children. He was hired as violinist to the court of Weimar. A few times later we find again Bach organist in the church of St. Bonifacio to Arnstadt. Here he composed his first song and it also performed what is able venir considered the only one 'whim of a life completely voted to the discipline: a long absence for a trip to Lubecca, where the famous organist Buxtehude would be exhibited. Absence cost him the immediate dismissal, even if fully justified by the passion of Bach for the music and particularly for the organ. Transferred him to Molhausen, Bach  worked as organist and, in 1707, he married his cousin Maria Barbara, that gave him seven children. Bach came subsequently again called to Weimar by the duke Guglielmo Ernesto of Saxony Weimar and, in 1723, he was hired as chorister in the school of St. Tomaso of Lipsia. Him you have to leave also this charge for the continuous attritions caused by the envy of his colleagues. In 1720 the wife of Bach died, and one year later, he married Anna Magdalena Wolcken, that gave him other thirteen children.