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Thuringer Bach Collegium

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Performed by the Thuringian Bach Collegium:All four wind ensemble works by Johann Bernhard Bach, Johann Sebastian Bachs second cousin!The Thuringian Bach Collegium, whose album featuring violin concertos by Prince Johann Ernst II (AU97769) has received high praise. This highly anticipated second release is an album featuring all four orchestral suites by Johann Bernhard Bach, Johann Sebastian Bachs first cousin.Johann Bernhard was born in Erfurt in 1676 and received his first musical instruction from his father, who was also a musician. In 1695, he became an organist in his hometown; he subsequently served as an organist in Magdeburg and Eisenach, as well as a court musician for the Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and died in Eisenach in 1749. As a composer, he focused primarily on organ works, but most of these have been lost; these four orchestral suites are representative of his surviving