My Manequin. Cute, huh??

Me In My 30s

Me When I Was 18

My Dear Family...

While working as organist at St. Blasius's in Mühlhausen, I married (happily) to my second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach. We had seven children, but three did not make it to adulthood..... While at Weimar, I composed The Little Organ Book for his eldest son, Wilhelm. On July 7, 1720, while Bach was away, my faithful wife died unexpectedly.
The following year, the I met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young, gifted soprano 17 years my junior, and we married on December 3, 1721. Together we had 13 more children; sadly, only 7 survived to adulthood, and three of them became talented musicians.
Two of my children from Mary Barbara; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, became composers in the Rococo style that followed the Baroque.
I'm so proud of them!
My Family.....

Jobs I had To Get After I Have Grewn Up

After graduating, I became court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar, a large town in Thuringia. I was an assistant there. In August 1703, I accepted the post of organist at St. Boniface's Church in Arnstadt. by this time, my prowess with a keyboard was starting to circulate amongst the state of Thuringia, and I was already composing some impressive pieces. In 1706, I took the position of organist at St. Blasius's in Mühlhausen, a large city to the north. The position included better pay and conditions, and a good choir. The city of Mühlhausen was proud of their church organist, and even payed for the publication of a cantata he wrote for the inauguration of the new council in 1708 (God is my King BWV 71), but I was not afraid of opportunity, and took a better position offered to me at the ducal court in Weimar, as court organist and concertmaster. Now I have received even better pay and the chance to work with professional musicians.... Great, huh?

This is me in the high time....

My Life As A Teenager

When I was 14, I proudly received a choral scholorship to study at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg,  Hamburg, one of the largest cities in the HRE. A typical curriculum in this most hard-working schools would include French, Italian, Latin, history, geography, theology, and physics, and music studies.  Johann had a chance to play the "Böhm Organ" in Johanniskirche, an instrument whose sonic capabilities where widely known; especially since he studied under Georg Böhm, the organist at Johanniskirche and namesake of the Böhm Organ.

St. Michael's School in Lüneburg,  Hamburg.....

Birth and Childhood Of Me

       I was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany to Maria Elisabetha Lämmerhirt Bach and Johann Ambrosius Bach. I was the youngest of eight children and the most famous today, but my father, uncles, some cousins and several siblings were all musicians of some sort. I was taught harpsichord and violin by his father, who was the organist at St. George's Church, and a famous uncle, Johann Christoph Bach, taught young Johann Sebastian the organ.
       I lost my parents at 10 years old, losing both of my parents in one year, and I moved in with his older brother who was the organist at St. Michael's Church in nearby Ohrdruf and studied under Johann Pachelbel.

Johann Ambrosius Bach, my dear father.....

Cello Suite No.1 vi-Gigue Mischa Maisky

Cello Suite No.1 v-Menuet by Mischa Maisky

Cello Suite No.1 iv Sarabande by Mischa Maisky

Cello Suite No.1 iii-Courante by  Mischa Maisky

Cello Suite No.1 ii-Allemande by Mischa Maisky

Cello Suite No.1 Prelude by Mischa Maisky

Johann Sebsastian Bach

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