According to one popular legend of the young composer's curiosity, late one night, when the house was asleep, he retrieved a manuscript (which may have been a collection of works by Johann Christoph's former mentor, Johann Pachelbel) from his brother's music cabinet and began to copy it by the moonlight. While in his brother's house, Bach continued copying, studying, and playing music. Bach was nine, at which time Bach moved in with his older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who was the organist of Ohrdruf in Germany. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.īach's mother died when he was still a young boy and his father suddenly died when J. In an era when sons were expected to assist in their fathers' work, we can assume J. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was the town piper in Eisenach, a post that entailed organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the direction of the church organist, and his uncles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to composers, although Bach would later surpass them all in his art. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685 and died in 1750 at the age of 65.
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