Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach was born the youngest child of Johann Ambrosias Bach and Maria Elisbetha, nee Lamerhirt. He was baptized two days after he was born. He was a helpful boy, and if he was very good, his father would give him a piano lesson. When Bach was 7 he entered Latinschule in Eisenach, where Martin Luther had studied, and by the time he was 10 he could read the Gospel in Latin. When Bach was 9 his mother died of a disease, and not even 9 months later his father died, so he and one of his brothers went to live with an older brother in Ohdruf, Germany. Bach left his brother when he was 15 to go to school in Lunenburg. He was excelling in all of the courses, and he was offered an opportunity to play the violin in the court orchestra of Weimer. Bach decided that it would be great to play in the orchestra, and he left Lunenburg for a new life in Weimer. Bach went to Weimer, to play for Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimer-Eisenach, expecting that it would be fun. It was anything but fun. No one liked the court musicians. He had to live off of servant’s wages, in servant’s quarters, and was treated like a servant. Most of the time people didn’t notice the musicians. Sometimes the musicians even had to play behind screens where th
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