His adherence to Baroque forms and contrapuntal style was considered "old-fashioned" by his contemporaries, especially late in his career when the musical fashion tended towards Rococo and later Classical styles. While Bach's fame as an organist was great during his lifetime, he was not particularly well-known as a composer. John Passion The Musical Offering The Art of Fugue the Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo the Cello Suites more than 200 surviving cantatas and a similar number of organ works, including the celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Revered for their intellectual depth and technical and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos the Goldberg Variations the English Suites, French Suites, Partitas, and Well-Tempered Clavier the Mass in B Minor the St. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation in composition for diverse musical forces, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. Keith and I are overwhelmed with the response this song has had, and we are just grateful to God that He should use it to build up His church in this way.Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. I wanted to write a fourth verse that was about us – but not just as an emotional response, but as a undeniable statement of the power of Christ to sustain us in this life. The verses came in a fairly linear way, but as the third verse developed, I was getting pretty excited as I thought about the amazing implications of Christ’s finished work on the cross. The only thing I could think was to base it on the eternal theme of the life, death and resurrection of Christ. And I began to feel the pressure to write lyrics that were of a comparable standard! And the first melody on it really hit me – it was tuneful and memorable, and yet had gravitas and real emotion. Keith promised he would send me a CD with a bunch of melodies he’d been working on, and to be honest I thought no more about it.
We had been introduced by a mutual friend at a worship conference, where we had a coffee together and talked about our backgrounds, musical influences, and motivations to write. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family, Christ alone was actually the first song Keith Getty and I wrote together. Stuart Townend & Keith Getty Copyright © 2001 Thankyou Music (Adm. When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!īought with the precious blood of Christ. What heights of love, what depths of peace, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
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