August wilhelm bach biography kids
August wilhelm bach biography kids
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Q: How many children did J.S. Bach have? A: Loads. Here’s what we know.
9 December 2021, 18:23
209 surviving church cantatas, dozens of concertos, countless organ preludes and fugues.
And 20 children. J.S. Bach was a very busy man.
Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wives Maria Barbara (m. 1707–1720) and Anna Magdalena (m. 1721–1750), fathered 20 children over his lifetime.
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His first was born in 1708 when Bach was 23, with his last coming into the world in 1742, when the composer was 57. Sadly, only ten survived through to adulthood.
The Bachs were always a musical family with a house full of instruments – and Johann Sebastian was always keen to compose pieces for his wife, children and the community they lived in.
Here they are, in order of their birth.
It's a long list – there's a lot of musical talent, many fascinating stories, and tragedies for the family as well...
1. Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708 – 1774)
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