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- The Bach Family - Chronological and alphabetical categorizing of principal members of the family, spanning Johann's birth in 1604 through Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst's death in 1845. Includes links and commentary from the Here Of a Sunday Morning radio program.
- Bach Family - Background on earlier generations in the town of Erfurt. Includes portrait of Johann Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius.
- Composers: Bach - Numerical chart showing the relationships among more than 75 members of the family who bore the name with their dates. Includes some who were musicians but not composers.
- The Bach Family - Table of contents for their history with family tree and links to other resources plus glossary.
- Bach-Archiv Leipzig - "Our purpose is to collect and examine literary and documentary material about the life, work and history of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family - and to present his work to the public through exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and publications." Site in English and German.
- Bach's Pupils and His Legacy - Outline of family members and others schooled by the master of Baroque composition. Includes links to biographies and related topics. From the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
- Bach - Summary biographies of many of the known composers and musicians among several generations of the family in alphabetical order with noted genealogical number. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- Bach, Johann Ernst: Biography - Biographical sketch and links from Timothy A. Smith's Sojourn pages devoted to the Bach family.
- Bachdiskographie - Versuch einer Übersicht - Übersicht von Jochen Grob über die Fassungen der Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs und den Werken der Bach-Familie mit Entstehungsgeschichte, Werkfassungen, verfügbaren CDs und Noten.
- Peter von Bartkowski Posters - Artist from Berlin sells posters tracing the family trees of jazz, rock, classical music, and the musicians of the Bach family.
Wikipedia Articles
- Bach family - The Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself and completed by ...
- Veit Bach - Veit Bach (d. before 1578, in Hungary) was a miller who, according to Johann Sebastian Bach founded the Bach family, which became the most important family in western musical history.
- August Wilhelm Bach - August Wilhelm Bach (October 4, 1796 – April 15, 1869) was a German composer and organist. He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- I Married...Sebastian Bach - A show that premiered on VH1, depicting the lives of Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach and his family life, with special emphasis on his marriage with wife Maria Bierk. Features New Jersey metal band Severed Hand.
- Hofstadter sequence - In mathematics, a Hofstadter sequence is a member of a family of related integer sequences defined by non-linear recurrence relations. Most of the Hofstadter sequences are described by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach.