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Of the seven children that Johann Sebastian Bach had with his first wife Maria Barbara Bach, his second cousin, four survived into adulthood: Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708–1774); Wilhelm Friedemann; Carl Philipp Emanuel (the "Berlin Bach", later the "Hamburg Bach"); and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. [3] .
Maria Barbara Bach (20 October 1684 – buried 7 July 1720) was the wife of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was also the mother of the composers Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach .
Apr 22, 2024 · Maria Barbara Bach died unexpectedly and was buried on July 7, 1720. About November, Bach visited Hamburg; his wife’s death may have unsettled him and led him to inquire after a vacant post at the Jacobikirche. Nothing came of this, but he played at the Katharinenkirke in the presence of Reinken.
Dec 2, 2001 · The death of Maria Barbara, the mother of Bach's first seven children, came unexpectedly in 1720, as Bach was spending a few months in Carlsbad with his employer Prince Leopold of...
Nov 16, 2014 · Historians speculate that Bach composed it after returning from a trip and found his wife (and the mother of seven of his children) Maria Barbara had died. Fellow composer Johannes Brahms , in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece like this:
Jan 18, 2007 · In 2004, Arnold Steinhardt played at the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara, in a park on the outskirts of the old city of Cothen, Germany.
Maria Barbara Bach died in July 1720, while her husband was away on a tour in Karlsbad. Although he had four young children at home at the time of his wife's death, Bach did not remarry immediately, as was the custom of the day. He waited 18 months before marrying Anna Magdalena Wilcken on December 3, 1721.
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