This manuscript is Walter Emery's own English translation of Bach's obituary notice, written jointly by C.P.E. Bach and J.F. Agricola, originally published in Mizler's Neu Eröffnete Musikalischer Bibliothek, volume 4, part 1 in Leipzig 1754. Also included are two short biographical excerpts on Bach: J.G. Walther's Musikalisches Lexicon (1732) and the Genealogy which Bach himself compiled in c.1735.