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Jun 16, 2018 · Bach’s wives, Maria Barbara Bach (left) and Anna Magdalena Bach (right) His marriages. Bach was married twice – first to Maria Barbara from 1707 to 1720 and then to Anna Magdalena from 1721 to 1750. His first wife died tragically after just thirteen years of marriage while Bach was travelling.
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A further four survived into adulthood: Gottfried Heinrich; Elisabeth Juliane Friederica (1726–1781), who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol; Johanna Carolina (1737–1781); and Regina Susanna (1742–1809). [4] Of Bach's surviving children, only five married.
From 1641, he became organist in Arnstadt's St. Mary's Church and the Upper Church, a post he kept until his death. In 1642, he married Eva Hoffmann, the younger daughter of Suhl Stadtpfeiffer Hoffmann. Bach died in Arnstadt.
A further four survived into adulthood: Gottfried Heinrich; Elisabeth Juliane Friederica (1726–1781), who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol; Johanna Carolina (1737–1781); and Regina Susanna (1742–1809). Of Bach's surviving children, only five married.
Apr 24, 2020 · To put the composer of that music in context, Heinrich Bach was Johann Sebastian’s great uncle. Heinrich’s brother, Christoph, had three sons. Two were twins, Johann Christoph and Johann Ambrosius, who were born in 1645. (Johann Ambrosius was Johann Sebastian’s father.)
Bach no doubt wanted his surviving children to have a mother figure. On 3 December 1721, they got one when he married Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a singer from a musical family. Anna Magdalena was relatively young compared to Johann: she had just turned twenty, and he was thirty-six.
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Now an orphan, Bach and one of his brothers, Johann Jakob, were adopted into the family of the eldest Bach brother - confusingly, also called Johann Christoph. He lived nearby in the town of Ohrdruf, working as the organist in the local church, St. Michaeliskirche, and had recently married.
