Bach, Johann Sebastian
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![1748 portrait of Bach, showing him holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi/?iiif=cache%2F6a75fe56e1213d025a1637d2b1ca0ed1.tif/full/,340/0/native.jpg "1748 portrait of Bach, showing him holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg
Basic data
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March 31, 1685greg. in Eisenach
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†July 28, 1750 in Leipzig
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Komponist, Organist
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Leipzig, Köthen, Mühlhausen, Arnstadt, Weimar, Lüneburg, Ohrdruf, Eisenach
Iconography
![1748 portrait of Bach, showing him holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg "1748 portrait of Bach, showing him holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Ambrosius_Bach.jpg "Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de] (Source: Wikimedia)")
.png "Aria of the Goldberg Variations, showing Bach's use of ornaments (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Image of the Bach memorial [de] erected by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in 1843 (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Altes_Bachdenkmal_(Leipzig)_-_Holzstich.jpg "Image of the Bach memorial [de] erected by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in 1843 (Source: Wikimedia)")
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