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.....