Bach had a salary while he was the Cantor at Thomasschule, but most of his income came from funerals and weddings. https://bachnetwork.org/ub12/ub12-heber.pdf

Bach had a salary while he was the Cantor at Thomasschule, but most of his income came from funerals and weddings. https://bachnetwork.org/ub12/ub12-heber.pdf https://bachnetwork.org/ub12/ub12-heber.pdf There were a lot of great composers in that period, but that's over 200 years and there were probably many more who are forgotten or were never even given the opportunity. And today there are probably more songs released on Spotify daily than were written in all of the 1700s.