导言：巴赫是不是个好学生呢？据说巴赫小时候也经常翘课。但是巴赫喜欢练琴，他认为是勤奋刻苦的练习给予了他创作的灵感，巴赫很早就开始创作音乐了，但真正走上作曲家道路是在1708年。我们定期会以提问的方式更新一些人们了解巴赫时常问的问题，让我们离这位音乐圣者更近一步。
Was Johann Sebastian Bach a Good Student?
巴赫是个好学生吗？
That really depends. In Eisenach it is said, he didn't show up positively. It's handed down, that he missed lessons often. Why? Experts don't have a common opinion. Some guess, there were reasons, which students still today tell to skip one lesson or an other. Others think, that it was just necessary for a large family in hard times like for the Bachs back then, that the musician Johann Ambrosius Bach needed the support of his son Johann Sebastian to make music on different occasions.
那得看情况了。在《艾森纳赫》中，据说他没有表现出作为学生积极的一面。据一代代人心口相传那样，他经常缺课。为何如此？专家没有一个统一的观点。有些人猜测，巴赫是有原因的，直到今天学生们仍然会选择逃课。也有人认为，在当时的艰难时期，像巴赫这样的大家庭，作为音乐人约翰·安布罗西乌斯·巴赫（其父）需要他的儿子约翰·塞巴斯蒂安的支持才能在不同的场合创作音乐。

Did Johann Sebastian Bach Have a Happy Childhood?

巴赫童年快乐吗？

Nobody knows that. It's not handed down. In general, not much is known about the family life and private life of Johann Sebastian Bach. At least Bach's happy time came to an end, when he was nine years old. At that time in a short time one parent after another plus his uncle died. After that catastrophe Bach moved in with his brother in Ohrdruf. It goes without saying that he lost all of his friends with this move, which he had a that time in Eisenach too. But is not known of any friendship at that time.
这个答案无人能解。流传的言论中并没有对此进行描述。总的来说，我们对约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫的家庭生活和私生活知之甚少。至少巴赫9岁的时候，他的快乐时光结束了。在那个时候，父母和他的叔叔一个接一个地去世了。在那场灾难之后，巴赫搬进了奥尔德鲁夫的哥哥家。不用说，他在艾森纳赫的经历使他失去了所有的朋友。但当时不知道他曾拥有过什么友谊。

Did Johann Sebastian Bach Practise Much?

巴赫练琴勤奋吗？

Yes, Johann Sebastian Bach has practised really much. Because practising much with making music was his philosophy. After all an anecdote is handed down, when somebody asked him, how he could possibly create such dreamlike music and was even able to perform these partially really hefty parts. He replied, he had to be busy very early – and with much modesty he added for his students, "...if you are as busy as I am, than you will play music as good as I do it."
是的，约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫练琴相当刻苦。因为多练习音乐是他的人生哲学。当有人问他，他怎么可能创作出如此梦幻般的音乐，甚至能演奏出这些非常重要的部分，这都是流传下来的轶事。他回答说，他得很早就开始忙于练琴了，他很谦虚地为他的学生补了一句：“……如果你像我这样勤奋，你演奏的音乐就会和我一样好。”

At Which Age Did Johann Sebastian Bach Start to Compose?

巴赫多大开始作曲的？

It is not easy to answer this question, in which age Bach started to compose. It depends, what you connect to the word "composing", which changes the date related to the question. It's a fact that Bach is considered only almost a child genius, by no means in the ranking of a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Few scientists assume, that some works already in Ohrdruf came into being, when Bach was a young as ten years when he arrived: some preludes and some fugues for organ".
巴赫是在哪个时期开始创作的，要回答这个问题并不容易。这取决于，你用来作曲这个词，就改变了与问题相关的日期。事实上，巴赫几乎被认为是一个儿童天才，绝不下于沃尔夫冈·阿马德乌斯·莫扎特的排名。很少有科学家认为，当巴赫年仅10岁的时候，他就已经有了一些作品：一些管风琴的前奏曲和赋格曲。
Latest science, discovered as late as in the 21st century tells of the existence of a choral fantasy of Bach from his time in Lueneburg. That is what we could judge as the earliest composing, that would have been at age fifteen. Plus he could have arranged music pieces, which he listened to, and optimized them. Certified is the beginning of his skills as a composer from his time, which he spent in Arnstadt. There in the year 1703 he created his work "Prelude and Fugue in C Major for organ".
21世纪最新科学研究表明，巴赫在卢纳堡时代就有一个合唱幻想曲。这是我们能够判断他在十五岁的时候创作的最早的作品。此外，他可以编配音乐作品，聆听，并优化它们。1703年，他在阿斯达特创作了《C大调前奏曲与赋格曲》，这部作品被认为是他作为作曲家的职业生涯的开始。
In the year 1708 Johann Sebastian Bach composed the first piece, which counts to the very famous ones by name, so that is to say among the works "which you have heard of before". That was the Town Council Inauguration Cantata with the name "God is my Lord". For the Bach Connoisseurs it's number 71 in the BWV.
在1708年，约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫创作了第一首曲子，这首曲子的名字就可以同最著名的几首曲子媲美，可以说是人人耳熟能详的作品。这部作品就是巴赫镇议会的就职大合唱，曲目名字是“上帝是我的主”。对于巴赫的鉴赏家来说，这部作品排到了BWV编号中的第71位。
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