Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt (24 February 1644,
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ...
– 1 May 1694,
Eisenach
Eisenach () is a Town#Germany, town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia, and bordering northeastern Hesse, Hessian re ...
) was the mother of
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
.
She was a daughter of Valentin Lämmerhirt (or Lemmerhirt, 1605–1665), a
furrier and coachman in Erfurt. On 8 April 1668, she married her friend since childhood,
Johann Ambrosius Bach. The couple left Erfurt in 1671 and settled in Eisenach, where in 1685 their eighth son, Johann Sebastian Bach, was born.
Her half-sister Martha Dorothea was the mother of composer and
lexicographer
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries.
* The ...
Johann Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.
Life and work
Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contempor ...
, who became a friend of Johann Sebastian.
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1644 births
1694 deaths
People from Erfurt
Bach family
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