Johann Sebastian Bach timeline

By lauriebarnes

  • Birth

  • Lateinschule, Eisenach

  • moves to school at Ohrdruf

  • Enrolls at Michaelisschule, Luneberg

  • Secures organist post at Neue Kirche, Arnstadt

  • organist at Muhlhausen, marries Maria

  • Organist at Weimer

  • Appointed Kapellmeister at Cothen

  • Sonatas and Partitas composed, wife dies

  • Brandenburg Concertos performed, marries Anna Magdalena

  • Kantor Thomaskirche, Leipzig

  • St. Matthew's Passion performed

  • Goldberg Variations published

  • The Musical Offering published

  • B Minor Mass performed

  • Working on The Art of the Fugue, dies July 28