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Johann Sebastian, 36, married the 20-year-old Anna Magdalena on 3 December of that year, seventeen months after the death of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. Later that month, the couple's employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, married Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg.
Learn about Bach's second cousin Maria, who became his wife in 1707 and bore him 20 children. Find out how many survived and which of Bach's compositions were inspired by his family.
Jun 28, 2024 · Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second wife. Only 10 of them lived to adulthood. Several of his sons, including Wilhelm Friedemann , Carl Philipp Emanuel , and Johann Christian , who was called the “English Bach,” were also composers.
Anna Magdalena Wilcken was a singer and musician who married Johann Sebastian Bach in 1721. She bore him 13 children, some of whom became composers, and helped him with his scores and performances.
On 7 July 1720, while Bach was away in Carlsbad with Prince Leopold, Bach's wife, Maria Barbara Bach, suddenly died. The following year, he met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young, highly gifted soprano 16 years his junior, who performed at the court in Köthen; they married on 3 December 1721.
Chiefly known as Johann Sebastian Bach’s second wife, Anna Magdalena has been a subject of five German books in recent years. She was also the star of a fictitious diary written by an English author Esther Meynell (OBM) in 1925.
Oct 9, 2019 · “Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks” is a cultural history as well as a musical biography of the woman who in 1721 became Johann Sebastian Bach’s second wife.
