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On "Exploring the Music with Bill McLaughlin" this week they featured the Bach Family. J. S. Bach is one of the most famous and greatest composers. But few people know that four of his sons were also famous composers in their own right.
Bach was married twice. His first wife was Maria Barbra Bach (1684-1720) who was his second cousin. He remarried Anna Magdalina Wilcken (1701-1770) With his first wife he produced Carl Philipp Emanusel Bach (1714-1788) and Willhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784). With his second wife he had Johan Christian Bach (1735-1782) and Johan Christoph Friedrich Bach ( 1732-1795). His sons are not as famous as their father. J. S. Bach's great father Veit (Vitus) Bach fled Hungry do to the fact that he was a protestant and Hungary was mostly Catholic. In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, there were a lot of tensions between Catholics and Protestants. There had been several generations of musicians in the Bach Family. Of J. S. Bach's sons the two most famous were C.P. E. Bach and Johan Christian Bach. After j. S. Died in 1750 his music became forgotten. It was in 1829 that Felix Mendelssohn discovered some of his manuscripts and began to revise J. S. Bach's music. There does not seem to be any famous composers that came after the Generations that came after J. S. Bach's sons. I had a teacher in elementary school that claimed that her husband was a decindent of J.S. Bach. Johan Christoph spent time in London and is sometimes called the "London Bach". The Bach family lived in Thuringia which is part of Germany until the sons of J. S. Bach reached maturity. J.S. Bach never left Germany. Mort, Beethoven and Richard Strauss were also from musical families. Richard is not related to Johan. Volumes of works could be written about the Bach Family.
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