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    The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in the city. On its 600 m2 it...
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    implemented in Eisenach. In 1596, Eisenach became a ducal residence again for the house of Saxe-Eisenach. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685...
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  • Arnstadt Johann Sebastian Bach might have lived here with his aunt Elisabeth Bach House (Eisenach), the first Bach museum, housed in a building which was...
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    anniversary of his death. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany, on 21 March 1685...
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  • Lübeck Hedeby Viking Museum Borderland Museum Eichsfeld Bach House (Eisenach) Lutherhaus Eisenach Wartburg Margaretha Reichardt Haus Memorial and Education...
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  • 1709, that of a conductor (Kapellmeister) at Eisenach's ducal orchestra. On 6 August 1716, Johann Bernhard Bach married Johanna Sophia Siefer. Three children...
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    to Eisenach, the occasion was marked by a special Easter church service with music composed by Ambrosius Bach. His move reestablished Eisenach's status...
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    Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, and in 1907 it was donated to the Bach-Museum in Eisenach, where it is currently located. Its authenticity is based only...
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  • Thüringer Bachwochen (category Bach festivals)
    Bartholomäi, Dornheim [de] where Bach married his first wife. Eisenach: St. Georg, Eisenach [de], Bach House (Eisenach), Wartburg Erfurt: Augustinerkloster...
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    Christoph Wolff (category Bach musicians)
    Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive...
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  • a sensation. May 27 – Bach House (Eisenach) opens in what is at this time believed to be the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, the first museum devoted...
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    clavier concertos by Bach were also performed, though more frequently, perhaps, at Bach's house ... The most flourishing time in Bach's domestic band was...
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    Lutherhaus Eisenach Lutherhaus Eisenach is one of the oldest surviving half-timbered houses in Thuringia. Tradition holds that Martin Luther lived there...
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  • Johannes Bach had three sons, Johann Bach, Christoph Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach's grandfather) and Heinrich Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote about...
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    Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. Weimar, 19 April 1688 - d. Eisenach, 19 January 1748), later inherited Eisenach and Jena. Eleonore Christiane (b. Weimar, 15 April...
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  • Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (which was the home city of J. S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach), and became...
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  • Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, one of the two institutions which prepared the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of Bach's work. In...
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  • Alfred Dürr (category Bach scholars)
    was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Dürr studied musicology and Classical...
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    travels he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm, in Eisenach where Johann Sebastian Bach was born. He became Konzertmeister on 24 December 1708 and...
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    Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (category House of Habsburg-Lorraine)
    Nevsky Knight of the White Eagle Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1885  Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the...
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    William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (category House of Wettin)
    after the death of his father (2 November 1683), William Ernest married in Eisenach with Charlotte Marie, his cousin and eldest surviving daughter of his uncle...
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    born in Hohenkirchen Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in Eisenach Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian...
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    Kursachsen (the Electorate of Saxony). In 1572, the branches Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach and Saxe-Weimar were established there. The senior line again split in...
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  • Richard D. P. Jones (category Bach scholars)
    is a British musicologist and editor, known especially for his work as a Bach scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he has taught at...
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  • Werner Neumann (category Bach musicians)
    German musicologist. He founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig on 20 November 1950 and was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the...
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  • Hans-Joachim Schulze (category Bach scholars)
    musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the Bach-Jahrbuch...
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  • Uwe Wolf (musicologist) (category Bach scholars)
    He worked for the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen and Bach-Archiv Leipzig, where he developed the Bach Digital website. Since 2011, he has...
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    William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (category House of Wettin)
    Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 14 May 1632 – d. Eisenach, 22 November 1668). Johann Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Marksuhl, later of Saxe-Eisenach (b. Weimar...
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    Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen (category House of Ascania)
    and Saxe-Eisenach (1688-1748). Eleonore Wilhelmine's brother met Johann Sebastian Bach during the wedding festivities, and later invited Bach to become...
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    Wartburg (category Buildings and structures in Eisenach)
    410 metres (1,350 ft) to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It was the home of St. Elisabeth of...
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