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Arnstadt (ärn`shtät), city (1994 pop. 27,470), Thuringia, E Germany, on the Gera River. Known for its glove-manufacturing industries, Arnstadt also has glassworks, wood-finishing works, and foundries. Fluorspar and manganese are mined nearby. Arnstadt passed to the counts of Schwarzburg in the 14th cent. and later was the capital of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen. Noteworthy buildings include the 13th-century Church of Our Lady and an 18th-century palace. J. S. Bach was organist (1703–5, 1706–7) at the Church of St. Boniface there. |
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After a childhood marked by the early death of his parents, tutelage by an older brother, and study at a choir school in North Germany, Bach began as a provincial church organist in Arnstadt before moving through a series of increasingly better positions: Church organist in Muhlhausen, court organist in Weimar, court chapelmaster in Cothen, and finally cantor and town music director in Leipzig (where he was third choice for the position, after Telemann and another candidate). 3 million square feet, are located throughout Germany in Arnstadt, Borken, Bunde, Dorsten, Duisburg, Freiberg, Gutersloh, Bad Salzungen, Monheim, Oberhausen, Osnabruck, Rodewisch, Schmalkalden, St. |
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