Gottfried Heinrich Bach
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Gottfried Heinrich Bach (b Leipzig 26 Feb 1724; d Naumberg, buried 12 Feb 1763) was the firstborn son of the second marriage of Johann Sebastian Bach. He became "feeble-minded" (mentally handicapped in some way) at an early age, but he played the keyboard well and CPE Bach is quoted as saying that he showed "a great genius, which however failed to develop". From 1750 he lived with his brother-in-law JC Altnikol.[1]
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- ^ The New Grove Bach Family MacMillan 1983, p 3