Was Bach good at violin?
''In his youth and until the approach of old age, he played the violin cleanly and penetratingly, and thus kept the orchestra in better order than he could have done with the harpsichord,'' Carl Philipp Emanuel added. ''He understood to perfection the possibilities of all stringed instruments.
Is Bach a violinist?
Bach was greatly influenced by a local organist named George Böhm. In 1703, he landed his first job as a musician at the court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar. There he was a jack-of-all-trades, serving as a violinist and at times, filling in for the official organist.