Johann Ambrosius Bach (22 February 1645 – 2 March 1695 [O.S. 20 February]) was a German musician, father of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Relativity (1)
Johann Ambrosius Bach had died
Before he could have felt the pride
Of having sired a special son,
The ne plus ultra (best bar none).
And J.S.B. himself was sad
To think that he had never had
A chance for concerts with his dad.
So he was raised by Johann Christoff
(Of all the Bachs whom I could list off),
Who wasn’t just some Bach or other,
He was, in fact, an older brother.
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Johann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musician and musical scholar, best known for writing the first large scale study of J. S. Bach.
Relativity (2)
The biographical description of Bach's last tenure in Leipzig is almost entirely neglected, and no attention is given to the church music Bach wrote in the first two decades of that period.— Wikipedia
When Johann Nikolas Forkel penned
The founding Bach biography,
He little thought that it might end
In widespread hagiography.
He didn’t put Bach next to god,
In fact, in his researches,
He overlooked (you’ll think it’s odd)
Bach’s music for the churches.
And if his pioneering prose
Was biased or defective,
This only shows that it arose
Without a full perspective.
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