![]() The house of his birth no longer stands it is not the handsome old structure (Frauenplan 21) acquired by the Neue Bachgesellschaft in 1907 as the ‘Bachhaus’ and established as a Bach Museum. His godfathers were Johann Georg Koch, a forestry official, and Sebastian Nagel, a Gotha Stadtpfeifer. It is supported by the date of baptism (23 March these dates are old-style) in the register of St Georg. The date of Johann Sebastian’s birth, 21 March 1685, was carefully recorded by Walther in his Lexicon, by Sebastian himself in the family genealogy, and by his son as the co-author of the obituary. 22, 71 and 23) and a daughter, Maria Salome. Elisabeth and Ambrosius, who had worked in Eisenach since 1671 as Hausmann and also as a musician at the ducal court of Saxe-Eisenach, were married on 8 April 1668, and had eight children, five of whom survived infancy as well as Johann Sebastian, the last, these were three sons (nos. Elisabeth’s elder half-sister Hedwig Lämmerhirt was the second wife of Ambrosius Bach’s uncle, Johann Bach ( 4), organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt. ![]() Walther, suggesting that Lämmerhirt blood was perhaps not unimportant for the musical talents of the Bach family’s greatest son. Another Lämmerhirt daughter became the mother of Bach’s cousin J.G. The parents of Johann Sebastian were Johann Ambrosius Bach ( 11) and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt ( 1644–94), daughter of a furrier and town councillor in Erfurt, Valentin Lämmerhirt ( d 1665).
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