For the remainder of the century short biographies of the composer appeared in reference works like

Johann Adam Hiller's Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkünstler neurer Zeit,[9]
Ernst Ludwig Gerber's Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler[10] and Friedrich Carl Gottlieb
Hirsching's Historisch-literarisches Handbuch.[11] The descriptions in such biographical articles were
nearly exclusively based on the "Nekrolog", often copied with errors.[12]

Occasionally Bach appears in other writings, like Johann Friedrich Köhler's 1776 manuscript on the
history of schools in Leipzig, which gives a short account of Bach falling out with Johann August Ernesti,
conrector of the St. Thomas School.[13] In print Bach is mentioned as teacher of some musicians of the
next generation, for instance Christoph Nichelmann.