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(October 12, 1836 — September 16, 1917) Written by Hannah Johnson. 15 min read. Download Full Citation Biography (0.11 MB) Maria Sophia (Koehler or Kahler) Bach was the wife of pressman and political dissident, William Bach Sr. Both immigrants from Germany, the couple met in Philadelphia and were married there in 1855.
- Catharina Dorothea Bach
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 3 & 4. Johann Christoph Bach and Maria Sophia Bach
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
- Leopold Augustus Bach
- Christina Sophia Henrietta
- Gottfried Heinrich Bach
- Christian Gottlieb Bach
- Elisabeth Juliana Friederica
Bach's first born child. Composing wasn't an option for women in those days but Catharina excelled as a singer and often helped her father with his work.
J.S. Bach's eldest son with his first wife, Maria Barbara. Wilhelm followed in his father's footsteps and became a composer. J.S. Bach even wrote Wilhelm a graded course of keyboard studies, called the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Thanks to his intensive musical training, Wilhelm went on to become an organist and taught none other t...
J.S. Bach's third and fourth children, twins, were born on 23 February 1713 when Bach was 28. Johann Christoph lived no longer than a few hours after his birth, and his sister died a few weeks later, around the 13 March 1713. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Getty
Arguably the most gifted of J.S. Bach’s offspring, C.P.E. Bach was a highly original composer of symphonies, keyboard and choral music. Building on the Baroque training he learned as a boy, he became one of the foremost clavier players in Europe (after studying for a degree in law). His Essay on the True Art of Keyboard Playingestablished him as th...
Johann Gottfried was born on 11 May 1715 and, as was the case with his brothers, went on to become a professional musician. Unlike them, however, he didn't have the opportunity to go to university, and secretly abandoned his musical career in order to study law. He died at the tender age of 24.
Born on 15 November, Bach's seventh child lived for ten short months, and was buried on 29 September 1719. His godfather, a prince, also named Leopold, employed Bach as Kapellmeister between 1717 and 1723.
After Bach's wife Maria Barbara died, he went on to marry Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Their first daughter was born in 1723, the same year Bach signed a contract to become the Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but died three years later.
It's thought Gottfried was mildly mentally handicapped in some way, signs of which were picked up from an early age. Luckily he had plenty of supportive siblings: C.P.E. Bach said his younger brother showed a 'great genius, which failed to develop'.
Another tragically short-lived son, Christian Gottlieb only survived three years. He died on 21 September 1728.
1726 marks a year of joy and tragedy for the Bach family – just two months after Elisabeth was born, her elder sister Christiana died at the age of three. Elisabeth, however, survived into adulthood, and went on to marry one of her father's pupils, German organist Johann Christoph Altnikol.
The Bach family refers to several notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). [1] A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735 when he was 50 and was continued by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. [2]
Jun 16, 2018 · After Catharina he had his first son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 – 1784), a respected organist, and twins Johann Christoph Bach and Maria Sophia Bach who both died not long after birth. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788, image left) brought joy after such tragedy and is perhaps the most well known of all of Bach’s children, a ...
Nov 12, 2022 · Bach had seven children with his first wife. Of them, three died in childhood. Twins Johann Christoph and Maria Sophia died soon after birth, while Leopold Augustus (their youngest son) died at 10 months of age. In addition, the couple lost a son, Johann Gottfried Bernhard, at the age of 24.
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When Maria Sophia Bach was born on 23 February 1713, in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, her father, Johann Sebastian Bach, was 27 and her mother, Maria Barbara Bach, was 28. She died on 13 March 1713, in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, at the age of 0, and was buried in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany.
