Veit Bach

Veit Bach ( * 1550, † March 8, 1619 in Wechmar ) was the musical ancestor of the widely ramified German Bach family.

Life

Veit Bach was probably born in or near Bratislava, was miller and wandered throughout the Smalcald War to Hungary, which at that time also included parts of present-day Austria and the present-day Slovakia. Prior to the Counter-Reformation, he fled to Wechmar in Thuringia, where he worked as a miller and after the 1735 incurred records of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Cythringen pastime, played a type of cittern:

" Vitus Bach, a Weißbecker in Ungern, has in the 16th Seculo the Lutheran religion must escape from Ungern half. Is thence hero after he so much did his goods to want to do, made ​​money pulled in Teütschland; and there he found in Thuringia -sufficient security against the Lutheran religion, he has settled in Wechmar, near Gotha, and driven away his Beckers profession. He has had his Meistes pleasure in a Cythringen which he daraufgespielet also taken to the mill, and währendem grinding. ( It must have sounded pretty together have! Wiewol he dabey but the Tact has learn imprimiren. ) And this is as it were his descendants the beginning for Music bey. ... ""

Veit Bach had a brother named Caspar Bach ( * 1570, † 1642), the town piper in Gotha and Arnstadt, was, and two sons. The elder son, John Bach ( * 1580, † 1626 ) was a musician and carpet makers in Wechmar. The younger son was Philip "Lips " Bach ( 1590-1626 ).

Veit Bach Festival

Since 2000, the association establishes eV Wechmarer home four times a year named after Veit Bach Festival from within which each of a great people play with over 100 amateur actors in historical costumes will be premiered.

In Bach 2000, written by the Gotha author Andreas M. Cramer piece " Veit Bach forefather of the Bach family. " Celebrated under the direction of Antje Körbs on July 21, his first performance in Wechmar. 63 performers, two choirs and two dance groups presented the ( fictional) family events of the Bach family between 1590 ( the supposed year of the return Vitus to Thuringia, the homeland of his ancestors ) and 1635 ( the departure of Vitus grandchildren Johann, Heinrich and Christoph from Wechmar ) dar.

So far, first performed in the framework of Veit Bach Festival Plays:

  • 2000: Veit Bach. Forefather of the Bach family
  • 2004: Hans Bach. A minstrel
  • 2008: The enamored Kantor
  • 2012: Church of thunder to St. Viti

Others

In November 2003 the historic Upper Mill in Wechmar was his time to pass as a museum and memorial youngest Bach after three years of restoration. This has since Veit Bach Obermuhle mentioned building from 1685 has a special feature on a Thuringian Bohlenstube 1585. Upstairs the mill is located since 2004, the image of the cycle The Bach family Miihlberger artist Lars Schüller with 11 large format panels on the history of the family of musicians.

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