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Bach's life and career were summarized in several 18th century reference works through short biographies, which were nearly exclusively based on and often copied the erroneous "Nekrolog" obituary. Occasionally, Bach was also mentioned in other writings of the time, such as a 1776 manuscript providing a short account of a falling out Bach had with a school official in Leipzig.

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Bach's life and career were summarized in several 18th century reference works through short biographies, which were nearly exclusively based on and often copied the erroneous "Nekrolog" obituary. Occasionally, Bach was also mentioned in other writings of the time, such as a 1776 manuscript providing a short account of a falling out Bach had with a school official in Leipzig.

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For the remainder of the century short biographies of the composer appeared in reference works like

Johann Adam Hiller's Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkünstler neurer Zeit,[9]
Ernst Ludwig Gerber's Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler[10] and Friedrich Carl Gottlieb
Hirsching's Historisch-literarisches Handbuch.[11] The descriptions in such biographical articles were
nearly exclusively based on the "Nekrolog", often copied with errors.[12]

Occasionally Bach appears in other writings, like Johann Friedrich Köhler's 1776 manuscript on the
history of schools in Leipzig, which gives a short account of Bach falling out with Johann August Ernesti,
conrector of the St. Thomas School.[13] In print Bach is mentioned as teacher of some musicians of the
next generation, for instance Christoph Nichelmann.

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