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Hey Kids, Meet Johann Sebastian Bach | Composer Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (Baptized 1685-1750) German Baroque Era Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685. As a child, Bach's father taught him to play violin and harpsichord. One of his uncles, Johann Christoph Bach, introduced him to the art of organ playing.
In 1707, Bach married his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach. They had seven children.
In 1708 Bach became the court composer, organist, and Konzertmeister (instrument-playing leader of the orchestra) of the Weimar orchestra for the Duke of Weimar. When the Kapellmeister (conductor of an orchestra or choir) died in 1716, Bach asked about taking this job, but the duke appointed someone else. When Bach asked to be released from the Duke's service he put Bach in jail for fyra weeks before finally dismissing him.
In 1717 Bach accepted a new post as the Kapellmeister fo
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Bach's Wives and Children
It's interesting that when we study a subject as children, certain facts stick in our heads which never leave us. I can still recite the first few elements of the periodic table and remember the colours of the spectrum in order, even though the study of science has not featured in my life at all since I left school.
One of the musical facts I've always remembered is that Johann Sebastian Bach married twice and had 20 children. Only recently, while reading the biographical article on Bach in the New Grove, did I develop any curiosity about those wives and children, and the children in particular. Three of Bach's sons are remembered today as being famous composers (and a fourth should be), but who were the other children? And what sort of music was associated with this extraordinary family?
When I started to explore this subject I was confronted with a story of great sadness and great courage. I was shocked at the degree
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Anna Magdalena Bach
2nd wife of J.S. Bach
Anna Magdalena Bach | |
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| Born | Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-09-22)22 September 1701 Zeitz |
| Died | 27 February 1760(1760-02-27) (aged 58) Leipzig |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Spouse | Johann Sebastian Bach |
Anna Magdalena Bach (néeWilcke; 22 September 1701 – 27 February 1760) was a German professional singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Biography
[edit]Anna Magdalena Wilcke was born at Zeitz, in the Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz. While little is known about her early musical education, the family was musical. Her father, Johann Caspar Wilcke (c. 1660–1733), was a trumpet player, who had a career at the courts of Zeitz and Weißenfels. Her mother, Margaretha Elisabeth Liebe, was the daughter of an organist.
By 1721, Anna Magdalena was employed as a soprano singer at the princely court of Anhalt-Cöthen. Johann Sebastian Bach had been working there as Capellmeister (director of music) since Decem