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Johann Sebastian Bach

Biography

[edit] Childhood (1685–1703)
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, a town of some 6,000 residents in the German-speaking electorate of secular music and participation in church music. His uncles were all professional musicians, whose posts ranged from church organists and court chamber musicians to composers. Bach was proud of his family's musical achievements, and around 1735 he drafted a geneaology, "Origin of the musical Bach family",[1] tracing the history of generations of 53 musical Bachs, beginning with Veit (Vitus) Bach (d. 1619) "a white-bread baker in Hungary" who was forced to flee that country because he was a Lutheran and who "found the greatest pleasure in a little Cittern". His son Johannes (d. 1626) became a piper, his son Christoph (1613–61) was an instrumentalist, and his twin son was JS Bach's father.


The house in Eisenach where Bach is said to have been bornBach's mother died in 1694, and his father died the following year. The......


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