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  1. Sep 13, 2024 · He was a member of a remarkable family of musicians who were proud of their achievements, and about 1735 he drafted a genealogy, Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie (“Origin of the Musical Bach Family”), in which he traced his ancestry back to his great-great-grandfather Veit Bach, a Lutheran baker (or miller) who late in the 16th ...

  2. Johann Sebastian Bach[ n 1 ] (31 March [ O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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    • There's some disagreement about when he was actually born. Some people celebrate Bach’s birthday on March 21. Other people light the candles on March 31.
    • He was at the center of a musical dynasty. Bach’s great-grandfather was a piper. His grandfather was a court musician. His father was a violinist, organist, court trumpeter, and kettledrum player.
    • He took a musical pilgrimage that puts every road trip to Woodstock to shame. In 1705, 20-year-old Bach walked 280 miles—that's right, walked—from the city of Arnstadt to Lübeck in northern Germany to hear a concert by the influential organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude.
    • He brawled with his students. One of Bach’s first jobs was as a church organist in Arnstadt. When he signed up for the role, nobody told him he also had to teach a student choir and orchestra, a responsibility Bach hated.
  3. Apr 3, 2014 · Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, on March 31, 1685 (N.S.) / March 21, 1685 (O.S.), Johann Sebastian Bach came from a family of musicians, stretching back several generations. His father ...

  4. Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach in 1748 by Elias Gottlob Haussmann. Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 in Eisenach – 28 July 1750 in Leipzig; pronounced BAHK) was a German composer and organist. He lived in the last part of the Baroque period.

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  6. Born into a musical family, Bach received his earliest instruction from his father. After his father's death in 1695, Bach moved to Ohrdruf, where he lived and studied organ with his older brother Johann Christoph. He also received an education at schools in Eisenach, Ohrdruf, and Lüneburg.