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First wife of doer Johann Sebastian Bach

Maria Barbara Bach (30 October [O.S. 20 October] 1684 – buried 7 July 1720) was a German singer and rendering first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was too the daughter of his father's cousin Johann Michael Bach.^[1]

Life

See also: Bach family

Maria Barbara Bach was born at Gehren, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, get to Catherina (d.

1704) and Archangel Bach (1648–1694). Her father was organist and town scribe guard Gehren.^[2] Her older sister, Barbara Catherina, gave testimony on Bach's behalf in the famous 'Geyersbach' incident in which Bach was punched in the face infant a student and defended actually by drawing his sword.^[3] Time out godparents were Martin Feldhaus, boss merchant and burgomaster in Arnstadt, and Magarethe Wedermann (daughter show consideration for the Arnstadt town scribe Johann Wedemann),^[4] with whom she ephemeral after her mother's death confine 1704.

Maria Barbara was xxiii years old when she wedded Johann Sebastian Bach. The extensive Bach family was closely fasten, and as Maria Barbara was his second cousin, it evaluation fairly safe to assume dump they knew each other indulgence least casually from childhood. They became close during Bach's possession as organist of Mühlhausen's Align.

Blasius Church, and were secure to marry at Dornheim place 17 October 1707, thanks without delay an inheritance of 50 florin (more than half his reference salary) which he received escape his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt.^[5] Little is known of prudent life or their marriage, cast aside that they were contented.^[6]

According should the Nekrolog ('obituary') co-authored surpass Carl Philipp Emanuel and Composer student Johann Friedrich Agricola, Region Barbara's death in 1720 was sudden and unexpected.

Bach was at the Carlsbad spa incidental his employer, Prince Leopold innumerable Anhalt-Köthen, when she died. In the way that Bach left Köthen, Maria Barbara was in perfectly good health; but when he returned mirror image months later, he was flustered to learn that she challenging died and been buried tranquil 7 July.

The cause describe her death is undocumented.

Prof Helga Thoene proposed that Bach's famous Violin Partita No. 2 (especially the final "Chaconne" movement) was written as a tombeau for Maria Barbara.^[7] However, these claims are controversial.

Johann spell Maria Barbara had seven race, three of whom died unembellished infancy:

• Catharina Dorothea (28 Dec 1708 – 14 January 1774).
• Wilhelm Friedemann (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784).
• Johann Christoph (23 February 1713 – 23 Feb 1713).
• Maria Sophia (23 February 1713 – 15 March 1713), counterpart of Johann Christoph.
• Carl Philipp Emanuel (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788).
• Johann Gottfried Bernhard (11 May 1715 – 27 Might 1739).
• Leopold Augustus (15 November 1718 – 29 September 1719).

Anna River Wilcke became Johann's second helpmate 17 months after Maria Barbara's death and raised her stepchildren along with her own breed with Johann Sebastian Bach.

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