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Bach, Johann Ernst, of Eisenach
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Biographical sketch and links from Timothy A. Smith's Sojourn pages devoted to the Bach family.
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Bach, Johann Ernst: Biography Sebastian as a student at the Thomasschule (ca. 1735) in Leipzig. As part of these studies Ernst copied twelve concerti by Vivaldi which Sebastian later adapted to the clavier. A lawyer by training and in his early career, Johann Ernst's...Biographical information about the Eisenach composer with links from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Johann Ernst Bach German composer and organist. Only son of Johann Bernhard Bach. Became a scholar of St Thomas's school in Leipzig and while there lived with and was taught by Johann Sebastian, his godfather. Apparently he was not very successful at school,...