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Who were Johann Sebastian Bach’s parents?

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Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand. — Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt.1

His father, Johann Ambrosius, was a string player employed by the town council and the ducal court of Eisenach. Both of Bach's parents died by 1695, when he was a young boy.1