He lived during the last part of the Baroque period. He never really left the place where he lived, practically his whole life was spent in central Germany, but he studied all the music of the composers of that era. His own music shows that he learned and adapted music from many different countries, including French, German and Italian composers. However, Bach was forced to write religious music for most of his life. Bach wrote music for all genres except opera. In Bach's time, people wrote primarily in a classical style, but Bach liked to compose in the baroque genre. This is why it was said that when Bach died, the baroque genre too.