Veit Bach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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great-great-grandfather of J. S. Bach
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Place of Birth: Pozsony County
About Veit Bach
- Vitus "Veit" Bach (around 1550 – 8 March 1619, Wechmar) was a baker and miller who, according to Johann Sebastian Bach, founded the Bach family, which became one of the most important families in Western musical history.
- Veit's son, Johannes Bach (ca.
- 1580–1626), was the grandfather of Johann Ambrosius Bach, J.S.
- Bach's father, which makes Veit Johann Sebastian's great-great-grandfather.
- There are other theories that call a different Veit Bach, who died before 1578 in Erfurt, was the father of Johann(es)/Hans, and thus Johann Sebastian's great-great-grandfather.Evading religious persecution in the Kingdom of Hungary, then under the control of the staunchly Roman Catholic Habsburgs, Bach, being a Protestant, settled in Wechmar, a village in the German state of Thuringia.
- His descendants continued to live there until Christoph Bach, grandfather of J.
- S.
- Bach, moved to Erfurt to take up a position as municipal musician or Stadtpfeifer (town piper).
- Bach's son Johannes Bach studied music with the town's head piper.
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