Which of the statements below about the Baroque Era's greatest composer are true and which are not? Click the "?" to see if you're right. Good luck!
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TRUE or FALSE: The Brandenburg Concertos were named after the famous Brandenburg Gate in Germany. |
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TRUE or FALSE: Bach was a practicing Catholic, as is evidenced by his Mass in B Minor. |
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TRUE or FALSE: Bach was arrested and jailed. |
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TRUE or FALSE: The St. John Passion was composed upon commission by an admirer of Bach's cantatas. |
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TRUE or FALSE: Bach married his cousin. |
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TRUE or FALSE: He accepted a position at St. Thomas' School in Leipzig. In addition to his duties as organist and composer, Bach was supposed to teach Latin. He sub-let the Latin job to someone else. |
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TRUE or FALSE: He wrote a series of exercises for the harpsichord which, as a joke, he called "The Ill-Tempered Clavier." |
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TRUE or FALSE: After his first wife died, Bach found and married another of his cousins. |
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TRUE or FALSE: This Latin inscription would appear at the end of every composition: Sola gloria Deo. |
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TRUE or FALSE: In his final years, Bach lost his sight due to cataracts. An operation to remove them proved unsuccessful. His ocular surgeon, Dr. John Taylor, also performed the same procedure on Handel. |
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