... his younger brother. It was during Sebastian's time with his brother that he may have taught himself composition and composed his first bits of organ literature(Williams 8-9). In 1700, Bach left his brother for the town of Luneburg to attend the school at St. Michael's Church. While he was ... Frenchmen. This was an early form of Bach's exposure to French musical style, and provided him a very authentic example from which to begin his study of French music. Their gavottes and bourees certainly would have provided young Bach a better example of a dance than a local organ could have.(Willia...

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