JS Bach chamber and choral music (c.1720-1750)

Bach's most important orchestral masterpieces comes to us from his early career when he was a subject of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. Much of his music is a fusion of French and Italian styles popular at the time. Bach himself described that he happy there and the music reflected a certain lightness of being in contrast to the later cantatas and oratorios from his years at Thomaskirche in Leipzig.