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Johannes Bach I
Johannes Bach (1550 or 1580 – 1626) was a German piper and carpet weaver. He was the son of Veit Bach, the founder of the Bach family of musicians. He was the great-grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life Johannes was born in Wechmar, Germany, the son of baker and miller Veit Bach. Johannes did an apprenticeship as a town piper in Gotha and stayed here for a while as a town piper before he returned to Wechmar. He died of the plague during the Thirty Years' War. Johannes Bach had three sons, Johann Bach, Christoph Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach's grandfather) and Heinrich Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote about his great-grandfather in his family chronicle written in 1735: “Johannes Bach, the previous son, initially took up the Becker profession. But because he had a special affection for music, the Stadtpfeiffer in Gotha took him on as an apprentice. At that time, the old Grimmenstein Castle was still standing, and according to the custom at the time, his master lived ...
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Veit Bach
Vitus "Veit" Bach (around 1550 Pozsony ? Kingdom of Hungary – 8 March 1619, Wechmar) was a German baker and miller who, according to Johann Sebastian Bach, founded the Bach family, which became one of the most important families in musical history. Life and family Veit's son, Johannes Bach I (ca. 1580–1626), was the grandfather of Johann Ambrosius Bach, J.S. Bach's father, Veit therefore being Johann Sebastian's great-great-grandfather. There are other theories which hold that a different Veit Bach who died before 1578 in Erfurt was the father of Johann(es)/Hans, and was thus Johann Sebastian's great-great-grandfather."The Bach Family – Family History"
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Karl Geiringer
Karl Geiringer (April 26, 1899 – January 10, 1989)Will Crutchfield, January 12, 1989 Retrieved 2013-08-10. was an Austrian-American musicologist, educator, and biographer of composers. He was educated in Vienna but at the beginning of the Nazi years he emigrated to England and ultimately the United States, where he had a lengthy and distinguished career at several universities. He was a noted authority on Brahms, Haydn, and the Bach family, and a prolific author. Life Geiringer was born in Vienna, the son of Louis and Martha (''nee'' Wertheimer) Geiringer.http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib/review/bb-review_Freeman-Geiringer.html Published online on 17 May 2003Freeman et al. (1989) He studied music history at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler and Curt Sachs, and studied composition under Hans Gál. He also studied at the University of Berlin under Curt Sachs. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Vienna in 1923. The topic of his doctoral ...
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16th-century Births
The 16th century began with the Julian calendar, Julian year 1501 (represented by the Roman numerals MDI) and ended with either the Julian or the Gregorian calendar, Gregorian year 1600 (MDC), depending on the reckoning used (the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the Copernican heliocentrism, heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the SN 1572, 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova. These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science. Galileo Galilei became a champion of the new sciences, invented the first ...
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German Protestants
Protestantism (), a branch of Christianity, was founded within Germany in the 16th-century Reformation. It was formed as a new direction from some Roman Catholic principles. It was led initially by Martin Luther and later by John Calvin. History The Protestant Reformation began with the publication of the '' Ninety-five Theses'' by Augustinian friar Martin Luther in 1517. The key element of this religious upheaval was a break from Roman Catholicism's emphasis on tradition, favouring a focus on the Bible. The lasting effects of Luther's Protestant movement within Germany was to question its existing power structures, imploring lay nobles for church reformation, critiquing the Roman mass, sacraments and seeking to reaffirm the importance of faith in good works. His subsequent excommunication from the Church ensured Germany had an ideological divide between Protestant sects and other Christian denominations. Another prominent reformer, Martin Bucer, introduced the rite of communi ...
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Bach's Nekrolog
The 1754 obituary of Johann Sebastian Bach is usually called the Nekrolog. It was published four years after his death. Publication The "Nekrolog" appeared in Lorenz Christoph Mizler's ''Musikalische Bibliothek'', a series of publications appearing from 1736 to 1754, reporting on and criticising music. As such it was the organ of Mizler's Musical Society, of which Bach had been a member from 1747. Bach's "Nekrolog" appeared in its last installment, Volume 4, Part 1 in 1754, as the third of three obituaries of former members of the Musical Society. Although no author is indicated in the article, its authors are known to be Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's son, and Johann Friedrich Agricola, one of Bach's students. Content The "Nekrolog" contains basic data about Bach's family and where he lived, lists compositions, and elaborates a few scenes, notably the young Bach secretly copying a score owned by his eldest brother, the story about a musical competition which Bach "won" by his c ...
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Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff (born 24 May 1940) is a German musicologist. He is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014. Life and career Wolff was born in Solingen, the son of theologian Hans Walter Wolff. He studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology, and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. Wolff taught music history at Erlangen, Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ..., Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Ha ...
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Heinrich Bach
Heinrich Bach ( – ) was a German organist, composer, and a member of the Bach family. Heinrich Bach was born at Wechmar, and is the father of the so-called Arnstadt Line. After the early death of his father, his older brother Johannes Bach continued his music education and taught him organ playing. They moved to Suhl and Schweinfurt. From 1635 to 1641, he was ''Ratsmusikant'' in the Erfurt Ratsmusikanten-Compagnie led by Johannes. From 1641, he became organist in Arnstadt's St. Mary's Church and the Upper Church, a post he kept until his death. In 1642, he married Eva Hoffmann, the younger daughter of Suhl Stadtpfeiffer Hoffmann. Bach died in Arnstadt. Three of his sons, Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Michael Bach and Johann Günther Bach, were musicians. Works Only a few of his works have been preserved: *Cantata '' Ich danke dir, Gott'', a church cantata for the 17th Sunday after Trinity conserved in the Altbachisches Archiv , also (ABA, old-Bachian archive), is a collec ...
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Bach Family
The Bach family is a family of notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735 when he was 50 and was continued by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach Of the seven children that Johann Sebastian Bach had with his first wife Maria Barbara Bach, his second cousin, four survived into adulthood: Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708–1774); Wilhelm Friedemann; Carl Philipp Emanuel (the "Berlin Bach", later the "Hamburg Bach"); and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. All four were musically talented, and Wilhelm Friedeman and Carl Philipp Emanuel had significant musical careers of their own. After his first wife died, Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a gifted soprano and daughter of the court trumpeter of Prince Saxe-Weissenfels. They had 13 children, of whom Johann Christoph Friedrich (th ...
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Christoph Bach (musician)
Christoph Bach ( – ) was a German musician of the Baroque period. He was the grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach. According to information provided by Johann Sebastian Bach in his genealogy ''Origin of the Musical Bach Family'' written in 1735, Christoph Bach was the second son of Johannes Bach I. His brothers, Johann Bach and Heinrich Bach, were also composers.Christoph Bach (1613–1661)
Here of a Sunday Morning. Accessed 26 August 2020. He was born in Wechmar, Germany, where he became a court musician. He also held town musician posts in and in



Johann Aegidius Bach
Johann Aegidius Bach (9 February 1645 – November 1716) was a German organist, violist, and municipal orchestra director of Erfurt. He was Johann Sebastian Bach's 1st cousin once removed, Johannes Bach's son, and the father of composer Johann Bernhard Bach. He was a viola player and performer in the (municipal musicians band) in Erfurt. He was organist at the Kaufmannskirche and the Michaeliskirche; on 30 June 1682 he was named the director of the (city council music). See also *Bach family The Bach family is a family of notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735 when he was ... External linksList of members of the Bach family 1645 births 1716 deaths German male classical composers German Baroque composers German classical organists German classical violists Musicians from Erfurt Johann Aegidius 1 ...
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