Johann sebastian bach mini biography princesses
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Johann Sebastian Bach – A chronology
1685
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach on 21 March. He retained many memories of his childhood in Eisenach throughout his life, including the family home (which also contained rooms for trainee musicians), the traditional grammar school with its choir in the old Dominican monastery, St George’s Church and its organ, and the town hall, where brass musicians performed from the tower.
1693–95
Bach attended the local Latin grammar school.
1694
J.S. Bach’s mother Elisabeth died in May.
1695
Bach’s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, died on 20 February. Now an orphan, Bach moved to Ohrdruf, where he lived with his brother Johann Christoph, fourteen years his senior and the organist at St Michael’s Church. Together with his brother Johann Jakob and also his cousin Johann Ernst, Bach attended the grammar school, at that time a very prestigious educational establishment in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha. He sang in th
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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 hertigdöme 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 en person som spelar orgel.
bygd 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
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The 8 women behind JS Bach's music
Talented assistant
During Johann Sebastian Bach's lifetime (1685-1750), women in Baroque Europe were often seen as simply being their husbands' helpers. That also goes for Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena. Yet when he met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, she was an independent, well-paid chamber singer. At age 20, she abandoned her own career to bear him 13 children, organize a busy household filled with students and a constant stream of visitors and otherwise free him from all sorts of petty tasks.
She also copied music for her husband - although when she would have found time for that remains a mystery. She was not allowed to perform in church in Leipzig - that was the privilege of men and boys. But it's believed that she sung with Bach's amateur orchestra, the Collegium musicum, made up mainly of students.
After Bach's death, four of his sons were famous and enjoyed some degree of prosperity, but all four neglected their mother or stepmo