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Anna Magdalena Bach

née Wilcke (1701-1760)

A blog for all those who would like
to learn more about
Johann Sebastian Bach’s second wife –
for reading and listening.

St. Thomas Square, Leipzig, 1749

Anna Magdalena Bach had servants at her disposal! (See: Were there servants in the Bach family household?) So it was possible for her to pursue various activities not only in between times, but to a significant extent. This is the subject of the following articles.

I shall examine her activities as a singer in three articles. In Part I I treated the time in Köthen up to the move to Leipzig in 1723. Part II, just published, is about the subsequent years.

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Extract from the accounts of the Köthen court, March 1729

My publications about Anna Magdalena Bach:
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My piece “Anna Magdalena Bach – Ehefrau und Geschäftspartnerin” gives some impressions of what this book is about. It was produced by the German cultural radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur and broadcast on 30th March 2022.

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My piece "Die verwitwete Frau Capellmeisterin Bach als Musikalienhändlerin", produced by the German cultural radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur and broadcast on 29th May 2019, contains extracts from my research results which I present in this book.

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I would like to thank Alan Shepherd for the English translation.

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