Veit Bach

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Veit Bach (d. before 1578, in Hungary) was a miller who, according to Johann Sebastian Bach founded the Bach family, which became the most important family in western musical history. Veit's son, Johannes Bach (c. 1550-1626) was the grandfather of Johann Ambrosius Bach, J.S. Bach's father, which makes him J.S's great-great-grandfather.

Evading religious persecution in Hungary (or possibly modern Slovakia), Bach, being a Protestant, settled in Wechmar, a village in the German state of Thuringia. His descendants continued to live there until Christoph Bach, grandfather of J.S. Bach, moved to Erfurt to take up a position as municipal musician or "Stadtpfeifer" (lit. "town piper").

Bach's son Johannes studied music with the town's head piper.