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Arnstadt was first mentioned in 704 from the Arnestati. It is the oldest place to be mentioned in Thuringia. In 1204, it received municipal rights. Events Justinian II re-takes the throne of the Byzantine Empire Cenred succeeds to the throne of Mercia after his uncle Aethelred abdicates to become abbot of Bardney Births Deaths Adamnan, abbot of Iona (b. ... // Events February - Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor. ...
The composer Johann Sebastian Bach, whose family lived for generations in Arnstadt, began his musical career in the city. Most Bach scholars believe his well-known "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" was written here around 1707-09.
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ARNSTADT, a town in the principality of SchwarzburgSondershausen, Germany, on the river Gera, i r m.
The industries of Arnstadt include iron and other metal founding, the manufacture of leather, cloth, tobacco, weighing-machines, paper, playing-cards, chairs, gloves, shoes, iron safes, and beer, and market-gardening and trade in grain and wood are carried on.
There are copper-mines in the neighbourhood, as well as tepid saline springs, the waters of which are used for bathing, and are much frequented in summer.
Arnstadt, Erfurt, and Eisenach are the towns in which the Bach family had resided for nearly 100 years.
In 1703 he was called to Arnstadt to perform such a test on the organ of the Church of St. Boniface, or as it was called, "the New".
Bach's duties at Arnstadt were to accompany the services at the Neuekirche and to maintain the new organ It is necessary to note at this juncture that Bach's contract made no requirement that he compose figural music--a point of contention later on.
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