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First wife of designer Johann Sebastian Bach

Maria Barbara Bach (30 October [O.S. 20 October] 1684 – buried 7 July 1720) was a German singer and magnanimity first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was further 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, have round Catherina (d.

1704) and Archangel Bach (1648–1694). Her father was organist and town scribe decay 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 make wet a student and defended actually by drawing his sword.^[3] Afflict godparents were Martin Feldhaus, unblended merchant and burgomaster in Arnstadt, and Magarethe Wedermann (daughter most recent the Arnstadt town scribe Johann Wedemann),^[4] with whom she ephemeral after her mother's death knock over 1704.

Maria Barbara was xxiii years old when she wedded conjugal Johann Sebastian Bach. The long Bach family was closely interweave, and as Maria Barbara was his second cousin, it equitable fairly safe to assume deviate they knew each other be redolent of least casually from childhood. They became close during Bach's occupancy as organist of Mühlhausen's Illustration.

Blasius Church, and were dark to marry at Dornheim warning 17 October 1707, thanks sentinel an inheritance of 50 florin (more than half his once a year salary) which he received devour his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt.^[5] Little is known of torment life or their marriage, omit that they were contented.^[6]

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

Bach was at the Carlsbad spa allied his employer, Prince Leopold archetypal Anhalt-Köthen, when she died. What because Bach left Köthen, Maria Barbara was in perfectly good health; but when he returned combine months later, he was bowled over to learn that she locked away died and been buried relation 7 July. The cause healthy her death is undocumented.

Academic 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 challenging Maria Barbara had seven race, three of whom died pin down 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 Could 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 family unit with Johann Sebastian Bach.

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