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Born 1587 • Halle • Germany
Died March 24, 1654 (aged 67) • Halle • Germany
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.
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