Jean-Christophe Frisch

Originated from French Provence, born in the late 17th century, Buffardin reaches Paris were he learns playing the German flute (newly invented traverso), before heading out to Constantinople as a musician attached to the service of Charles de Ferriol, Louis XIV’s ambassador. That is where he meets Johann Jakob Bach, Johann Sebastian’s older brother, and teaches him how to play his new flute. He then follows Johan Jakob in Dresden, where he meets Johan Sebastian Bach, and becomes friend with him, which leads him to Leipzig in 1724, to the Bach family.