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of organ playing. Bach was proud of his family's musical achievements, and around 1735 he drafted
a genealogy, "Origin of the musical Bach family".
Bach's mother died in 1694, and his father eight months later. The 10-year-old orphan moved in
with his oldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach (16711721), the organist at the Michaeliskirche in
nearby Ohrdruf. There, he copied, studied and performed music, and apparently received valuable
teaching from his brother, who instructed him on the clavichord. J.C. Bach exposed him to the
works of the great South German composers of the day, such as Johann Pachelbel (under whom
Johann Christoph had studied) and Johann Jakob Froberger; possibly to the music of North German
composers; to Frenchmen, such as Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis Marchand, Marin Marais; and to the
Italian clavierist Girolamo Frescobaldi. The young Bach probably witnessed and assisted in the
maintenance of the organ music
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