Anna Magdalena Bach, née Wilcke was a German professional singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach, (Anna Magd.) Soprano, J.S. second wife. Painted in oil by Cristofori. 2 feet 1 inch high, 23 inches wide. In a gold frame. Entry in the Catalogue of the musical estate of the deceased music director Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), a stepson of Anna Magdalena Bach, printed in Hamburg in 1790. This painting is lost. Today, there is no portrait of her that can be regarded as authentic.
St. Thomas School in Leipzig (photo pre-1885). The Bach family apartment was on the right side, extended over four floors (three floors before the renovation in 1731/32), and was over 2200 square feet in size. The building was pulled down in 1902. (The first Bach monument in the world can be seen in front of the St. Thomas School. It was initiated by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy who donated it to the city in 1843. It still survives today.)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Anna Magdalena Bach stayed in contact with her stepson until the end of her life.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
1748 portrait of Bach, showing him holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076.
Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de]
The Wender organ Bach played in Arnstadt
Organ of the St. Paul's Church in Leipzig, tested by Bach in 1717
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