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HOASM: Johann Sebastian Bach |
 | | His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, had held the post of a court trumpeter in Eisenach along with that of head of the town piper band, and according to his household rules, the young Johann Sebastian was trained not only as a clavier player, but on several instruments. |
 | | Bach's first, though only brief, professional engagement was as a court violinist in the private band of Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, from March to July 1703. |
 | | Bach was at the peak of his mastery, and it is therefore not to be wondered at that Johann Mattheson, in the earliest reference in print to Bach, commented: 'I have seen things by the famous organist of Weimar, Herr Joh. |
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