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 Eroffnete 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.