Death Anniversary: Johann Nicolaus Bach — November 4, 1753
He died in Jena on 4 November 1753 at eighty-four. Renowned as an organ builder and maker of harpsichords, he developed lute-harpsichords and tempered tuning systems praised by his second cousin Johann Sebastian Bach; his surviving comic cantata Der jenaische Wein- und Bierrufer remains a vivid student satire.
Dates verified on Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Bach digital authority record (https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalPerson_agent_00000806); Christoph Wolff, The New Bach Reader, W.W. Norton, 1998, ISBN 978-0393045581, p. 11.
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