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1685
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach on 21 March.

He retained many memories of his childhood in Eisenach throughout his life, including the family home (which also contained rooms for trainee musicians), the traditional grammar school with its choir in the old Dominican monastery, St George’s Church and its organ, and the town hall, where brass musicians performed from the tower.

 

1693–95
Bach attended the local Latin grammar school.

 

1694
J.S.

Bach’s mother Elisabeth died in May.

 

1695
Bach’s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, died on 20 February.

Johann Sebastian Bach was a renowned German composer and musician born in who lived during the Baroque period.

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Now an orphan, Bach moved to Ohrdruf, where he lived with his brother Johann Christoph, fourteen years his senior and the organist at St Michael’s Church. Together with his brother Johann Jakob and also his cousin Johann Ernst, Bach attended the grammar school, at that time a very prestigious educational establishment in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha.

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