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What was Bach's childhood like?

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Irma Kerluke

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Updated: 6/15/2021

J.S. Bach was born in Germany. He was the youngest son of the musician Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lammerhirt. He was left and orphan at age 10 when his mother and father died. J.S. Bach and his older brother Johann Jakob Bach moved in with their newly wedded oldest brother Johann Christopher Bach. He went to school at the gymnasium of Eisenach and at the Ohrdruf Lyceum. At age 15 in 1700 J.S. Bach moved out of his brothers place and went to school to study the organ and violin. He got his 1st job as a violinist in the duke's nephew's orchestra in Weimar. He left the orchestra in 1703 to become an organist in the Bonifacius-Kirche at Arnstadt. He got another job 4 years later in 1707 as an organist in Muhlhausen and stayed there until 1708.

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