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Maria Barbara Bach ({{OldStyleDate|30 October|1684|20 October}} – buried 7 July 1720) was the first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was also 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, to Catherina (d. 1704) and Michael Bach (1648-1694). Her father was organist and town scribe at 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 by a student and defended himself by drawing his sword.[3]. Her god parents were Martin Feldhaus, a merchant and burgomaster in Arnstadt, and Magarethe Wedermann (daughter of the Arnstadt town scribe Johann Wedemann).[4], with whom she lived after her mother's death in 1704.

Maria Barbara was twenty-three years old when she married Johann Sebastian Bach. The extended Bach family was closely knit, and as Maria Barbara was his second cousin, it is fairly safe to assume that they knew each other at least casually from childhood. They became close during Bach's tenure as organist of Mühlhausen's St. Blasius Church, and were able to marry at Dornheim on the 17th of October, 1707, thanks to an inheritance of 50 gulden (more than half his annual salary) which he received from his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt.[5] Little is known of her life or their marriage, except that they were contented.[6]

According to the Nekrolog ('obituary') co-authored by Carl Philipp Emanuel and Bach student Johann Friedrich Agricola, Maria Barbara's death in 1720 was sudden and unexpected. Bach was at the Carlsbad spa accompanying his employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, when she died. When Bach left Köthen, Maria Barbara was in perfectly good health; but when he returned two months later, he was shocked to learn that she had died and been buried on 7 July. The cause of her death is undocumented.

Maria Barbara bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy:

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

Anna Magdalena Wilcke became Johann's second wife 17 months after Maria Barbara's death and raised her stepchildren along with her own children with Johann Sebastian Bach.

References

1. ^Wolff, Christoph: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Learned Musician, W.W. Norton, New York, 2000; p. 89'
2. ^
Wolff; Op. cit.
3. ^Archives of the town of Arnstadt, 5 to 21 August, 1705; cited by Cantagrel, Gilles:
Bach en son temps, Fayard, Paris, 1997
4. ^Wolff;
Op. cit., p.90
5. ^Russel, Peter:
Delphi Masterworks of Johann Sebastian Bach, Delphi Classics (undated), East Sussex, U.K.
6. ^Bach, C.P.E., and Agricola, J.F.: "Nekrolog,"
Musikalische Biblioteck (Milzner), 1754, V.4, Part 1
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