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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Despite his acknowledged genius as an improviser and composer, his income and employment were unstable, and he died in poverty.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (born Nov. 22, 1710, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died July 1, 1784, Berlin) was the eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, and a composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles. W.F. Bach’s musical instruction was primarily from his father (who wrote for him, when he was ten, the charming ...
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, (born Nov. 22, 1710, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died July 1, 1784, Berlin), German composer and organist. Eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach , he was trained by his father. One of the finest organists of his time, he held important organist posts in Dresden (1723–46) and Halle (1746–64) but thereafter lived an unsettled ...
Learn about the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest son, who was a composer, organist and music director in Halle and Darmstadt. Discover how he tried to make a living as a freelance musician and how his reputation was restored after his death.
In: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach und die protestantische Kirchenkantate nach 1750. Ortus Musikverlag, Berlin 2012, S. 391–412. Hans Huchzermeyer: Bach-Überlieferung in Braunschweig. Neue Daten und Fragen zu Wilhelm Friedemann Bach sowie zu Matthäus Müller, Carl Heinrich Ernst Müller, Carl August Hartung und Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl.
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [45] was the eldest, and by common repute the most gifted son, of J.S. Bach [24]; a famous organist, a famous improvisor, and a complete master of counterpoint. Unlike the rest of the family, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was a man of idle and dissolute habits, whose career was little more than a series of wasted opportunities.
