Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bach
The Bachs had no need to go out of their own family for instruction in music 3 the art had been handed down from father to son, and, accordingly, John Sebastian's first instructor was his own father, who seems to have initiated him early into the mysteries of violin playing.
At the age of nine he lost his mother, and within a year his father also. The care of John Sebastian then devolved on an elder brother, Johann Christoph (born who had settled at Ohrdruf as organist of the principal church, in which town other members of the Bach family had resided.
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