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Dictionary definition: Bach (Family)
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Bach (Family).
The Bach family lived from the early 16th cent. in the Thuringian duchies of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Saxe-Meiningen and the principality of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt. Their profession was mus.—there are records that 53 Bachs held posts as organists, cantors, or town musicians over a span of 300 years. J. S. Bach himself compiled a genealogy of his family, which began, as far as his own line was concerned, with Veit Bach (
d
1619), a miller with a passion for lute-playing. Other prin. members of the family up to J. S. Bach's time were:
Hans Bach (
b
c.
1550;
d
1626). Violinist, son of Veit, and known as
Der Spielmann
(The Player). Carpet-weaver by ...