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Margaret W. posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago
Happy Father’s Day J.S. Bach . . . How many children did he father? In order of birth with music samples. https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/guides/children/
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Bingo! I was wondering the other day that with so many children there might be living descendents, but last certain descendants were Augusta Wilhelmine Bach (1800-71) and Juliane Frederica Bach (b.1800). Well, the musical children live on!
The Bach CLAN certainly lives on I believe, and many relatives of Sebastian Bach, but his own family line died out with those two grand-daughters.
Carl Phillip had a son whom he named Johann Sebastian after his father if I remember correctly. He, as I recall, went to Italy to study painting and art, became ill, and died at a very young age.
Learned of it thanks to the Giza BeoBachter!
Ja! 😉
Poor Mrs. Bach .. 20 children !!! .. Today that would get you your own post (zip) code ..
Well .. now we KNOW what he WAS doing whilst NOT making music .. Music of another kind .. 😉
The article explains . . . 2 wives, and sadly not all children survived.
In the good/bad old days, it was normal for maybe 1/2 of children to die within a few years of birth. Nothing unusual, until Western medicine and hygiene kicked in.