Johann Michael Bach (9 November 1745 in
Struth
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* Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
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near
Schmalkalden
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– 13 June 1820 in
Elberfeld
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) was a
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composer, lawyer and music theorist.
He was a son of Johann Elias Bach (1705–1755), and therefore a nephew of
J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
. He is not to be confused with his great uncle
Johann Michael Bach
:''To be distinguished from Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820)''
Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as wel ...
(1648–1694, brother of
Johann Christoph Bach
Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. ...
).
He was active as a lawyer in
Güstrow
Güstrow (; la, Gustrovium) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is capital of the Rostock district; Rostock itself is a district-free city and regiopolis.
It has a population of 28,999 (2020) and is the seventh largest town in Me ...
(Mecklenburg), then a music teacher at the high school in Elberfeld,
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
.
[''Hugo Riemann (1849-1919): Leben, Werk und Wirkung'' Michael Arntz - 1999 "Es gab sogar noch einen weiteren bühnentauglichen Schreiber in der Dynastie, Johann Michael Bach hieß er, ... fand sein Auskommen als Musiklehrer eines Gymnasiums im bergischen Elberfeld, heute Wuppertal, wo er 1820 mit 75 Jahren starb."]
His main theoretical work was his ''Kurze und systematische Anleitung zum General-Bass und der Tonkunst uberhaupt'' published at Kassel in 1780.
Works
*''Friedens-Cantata''; Ingrid Schmithüsen, Howard Crook, Gotthold Schwarz, Klaus Mertens,
Hermann Max
Hermann Max (born 1941 in Goslar) is a German choral conductor.
In 1977, he founded the Jugendkantorei Dormagen, which in 1985 became the basis of the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert. In 1992 he founded the Knechtsteden Early Music Fes ...
;
cpo
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999 671-2, 2000
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German male composers
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Johann Michael
18th-century German lawyers
German music theorists
1745 births
1820 deaths
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