Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia. Thuringia is a central province of Germany. He was born into a family that had a history and a future of prominent composers. Johann Ambrosius, a town musician and father to Johann Sebastian, was the first to get Bach interested in music. He learned how to play many instruments at a young age from his father. When his father died he moved to Ohrdruf to live with his brother Johann Christoph.
In 1700 Bach began to earn his own living at the Church of Saint Michael in Luneberg as a chorister. In 1703 he became a violinist in the chamber orchestra of Prince Johann Ernst of Weimar, but moved later to Arnstadt to become a church organist. Bach traveled to Lubeck to study with the German composer Dietrich Buxtehude in 1705. When Bach returned the church criticized him for the strange harmonies he had learned. He was not dismissed from the church because he was already too highly respected.
In 1707 Bach married his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach, and moved to Mulhausen as the organist for the Church of Saint Blasius. They stayed in Mulhausen for a year when Bach was offered a job as a violinist and organist at the court of
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