There are nine different periods in Johann Sebastian Bach's life.
Eisenach 1685-1695
Ohrdruf 1695-1700
Luneburg 1700-1702
Weimar 1703
Arnstadt 1703-1707
Muhlhausen 1707-1708
Cothen 1717-1723
Leipzig 1723-1750
Eisenach 1685-1695
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on the 21 March 1685 in Eisenach, Germany.
His fathers name was Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. Johann Ambrosius(father) taught him the violin and the harpsichord and hid famous uncle called Johann Christoph Bach, who was then organist at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach.
When he was eight years old he when to a old school, he was taught how to read and how to write, Latin grammar, and a great deal of scripture, both in Latin and German.
When he was nine his mother died and barely nine months later his father died.
Johann Sebastian and one of his brothers, Johann Jakob, were taken into the home of their eldest brother, Johann Christoph (born l671) who had recently married and settled down at Ohrdruf, a small town thirty miles south-east of Eisenach.
Ohrdruf 1695-1700
