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1of his works has been preserved, an organ-piece on the chorale, "Christ lag in Todesbanden."—Johann Gottfried Olearius, Funeral Sermon (Arnstadt, 1692); Spitta, i. 28.
3BACH, JAKOB [5], born at Wolfsbehringen, 1655, died at Ruhla, 1718. Son of Wendel Bach, and generally recognized as the head of the Meiningen line of Bachs. He was cantor in Steinbach, and, from 1694 to his death, in Ruhla. He was the first teacher of Johann Theodore Römhild.—Spitta, i. 11.
5BACH, JOHANN [2], born at Wechmar, Nov. 26, 1604, died at Erfurt, May 13, 1673. Eldest son of Hans Bach [1]. He was apprenticed to Hoffmann, "Stadtpfeifer" in Suhl, and became organist there and in Schweinfurt. After a restless life during the Thirty Years' War, he settled in Erfurt as director of the Raths-Musikanten, Sept. 27, 1635, and became organist at the Prediger-Kirche, probably in 1647. He was a true Bach in the strict morality of his life, and his influence upon music in Erfurt, where he lived during the greater part of his life, was such that the town-musicians were known as "the Bachs" down to the second half of the 18th century. He was the head of the Erfurt line of Bachs.—Spitta, i. 15.
7BACH, JOHANN ÆGIDIUS [6], born at Erfurt, Feb. 9, 1645, died there in 1717. Second son of Johann Bach [2]. He was viola player among the town-musicians under his father's directorship; became, later, organist at the St. Michaelis-Kirche, and succeeded his elder brother as Raths-Musik-director in 1682.—Spitta, i. 23.
9BACH, JOHANN AMBROSIUS [8], born at Erfurt, Feb. 22, 1645, died at Eisenach in 1695. Second son of Christoph Bach [3] and twin brother of Johann Christoph [9], also father of Johann Sebastian Bach [15]. He studied the viola under his father, and entered the association of the "Raths-Musikanten" at Erfurt in 1667, taking the place of his cousin Johann Christian [5]. In October, 1671, he settled in Eisenach, leaving his Erfurt position to his cousin Johann Ægidius [6]. The mental and physical likeness between him and his twin brother was so great that their own wives could not tell them apart. He married Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, April 8, 1668, and had the following children: 1. Infant, died soon after birth; 2. Johann Christoph [13]; 3. Johann Balthasar (born March 4, 1673, died April, 1691); 4. Johann Jonas (born Jan. 3, 1675); 5. Maria Salome (born May 27, 1677); 6. Johanna Juditha (born Jan. 26, 1680); 7. Johann Jakob [14]; 8. Johann Sebastian [15].—Funeral sermon by Valentin Schrön on Dorothea Maria Bach (Eisenach, 1697); now in the Ducal Library, Gotha; Spitta, i. 154, 171.
11BACH, JOHANN BERNHARD [12], born at Erfurt, Nov. 23, 1676, died at Eisenach, June 11, 1749. Second son of Johann Ægidius Bach [6]. He was organist at the Kaufmanns-Kirche at Erfurt, and afterwards at Magdeburg; was called to Eisenach in 1703 to succeed the great Johann Christoph [10] as organist at the St. Georgen-Kirche and other churches. Became also cembalist in the orchestra of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Sachsen-Eisenach. He was one of the best organ composers of his day. His style was much like that of Pachelbel. Of his works there still exist four suites for orchestra, a few short pieces for harpsichord, several arrangements of chorales for organ. Eight of the latter are in the collection made by Johann Gottfried Walther of Weimar. Three volumes of this are in the Royal Library at Berlin, a fourth in the Royal Library in Königsberg, and a fifth in the possession of Herr Frankenberger in Sondershausen. The orchestral suites are in the Royal Library in Berlin.—Spitta, i. 24.
13BACH, JOHANN CHRISTIAN [23], called the Milanese or the English Bach, born at Leipsic in 1735, died in London, 1782. Youngest son of Johann Sebastian, after whose death he went to Berlin to study under his brother Philipp Emanuel;
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