biography
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Bach, W(ilhelm) F(riedemann)
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known as the Halle Bach
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1710–84)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Weimar, C Germany, the eldest and most gifted son of J S Bach. He studied at the Thomasschule and Leipzig University, and in 1733 became organist at Dresden and in 1747 at Halle. His way of life became increasingly dissolute, and from 1764 he lived without fixed occupation at Brunswick, Göttingen, and Berlin, where he died. He was the greatest organ player of his time, but very few of his compositions were published, as he rarely bothered to write them down. |
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