Culture of Belgium
Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, was born in Belgium. The country has also a very active jazz scene that is achieving international recognition with bands like Aka Moon, Maak's Spirit and Octurn. Harmonicist Toots Thielemans, guitarist Philip Catherine and Django Reinhardt are probably the best known Belgian jazz musicians.
Ferdinand Bac
Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach was born in Stuttgart on 15 August 1859. 
His father, Karl Philipp Heinrich Bach (1811-1870), was a geologist, cartographer and landscape architect, the illegitimate son of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. 
Ferdinand was born of a second marriage of his father with Sabina Ludovica de Stetten, daughter of Baron Sigismund-Ferdinand Stetten.
The baron, born in 1772 in Bohemia, had attended the Congress of Vienna and told his memories to his grandson. 
Ferdinand Bac, a second cousin of Napoleon III, was raised on the margin of the court of the Second Empire.