1. Moving the cursor over the musician's name will reveal birth and death dates.
2. The date format is MM/DD/YYYY.
3. Where any information is unknown (month, day or year), it is simply left blank. Thus: 08/04/1730 - 02//1755 would indicate that the musician was born on August 4, 1730 and died sometime in February 1755.
4. A question mark (?) after a date indicates that some information about the date is uncertain or unknown.
5. If a birthdate is not known, but a baptism date is, this date is used without comment. (This is why, for example, Beethoven's "birthday" appears on December 17, and not the more-commonly supposed 16th).
6. If a death date is not known, but a burial or inquest date is, this date is used without comment. (See #5).
7. If scholars dispute a date by a single day, the earlier date is arbitrarily taken. Thus a musician born on either the 21st or the 22nd of April, 1839 will be entered as 04/21/1839. (See #5).
8. The information displayed is automagically uploaded daily from a database; I do not type the new information in each day. Please report any errors.
9. There are almost 80 members
of the Bach family in the database, many with the same name. Some are
noted as "Son of . . . " (not all).
Please do not contact me about "incorrect" information about a Bach family member
unless you are *certain* you have the same Bach in mind. Thanks.