14-459: Altbachisches Archiv , also Alt-Bachische Archiv ( ABA , old-Bachian archive), is a collection of 17th-century vocal music, most of which was written by members of the Bach family . Johann Ambrosius Bach , Johann Sebastian 's father, supposedly started to collect compositions by his relatives. Johann Sebastian Bach's obituary starts with an overview of the composers whose works are contained in
28-536: A daughter, Augusta Wilhelmina (1809–1818) was born, though she died as an infant, ending this line of Bach's descendants. Of the next generation, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach , also known as William Bach (24 May 1759 – 25 December 1845) was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia. WFE's only son died in infancy. The first born of his three daughters, Caroline Augusta Wilhelmine, lived
42-826: A few positions, namely those of Kapellmeister of Minden in 1786, and from 1788 to 1811 as Kapellmeister in Berlin with the blessing of King Friedrich Wilhelm II. Ernst Bach retired from his position after Prince Heinrich, the brother of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III granted him a pension. At the unveiling of the Bach Monument in Leipzig on 23 April 1843, Ernst Bach met Robert Schumann . Schumann later described Ernst Bach as "a very agile old gentleman of 84 years with snow-white hair and expressive features." One of Ernst Bach's most remarkable compositions
56-558: A foot soldier, in 1793 shortly after the birth of an illegitimate daughter. Of this child and a sister little is known. In 1780 she had given birth to an illegitimate son, of which nothing further is known. Friederica Sophia appears to have left her husband for a man by the name of Schwarzschulz, with whom she had an illegitimate daughter, Karoline Beata (b. 1798), whose descendants eventually emigrated to Oklahoma. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach , also known as William Bach (24 May 1759 – 25 December 1845)
70-625: The Altbachisches Archiv . Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Sebastian's son and co-author of his obituary, retained the collection and gave it its name. After his death the largest part of the collection came, via Georg Pölchau [ de ] , in the possession of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . All nine motets of the Sing-Akademie's part of the ABA collection, including BWV 1164 , at
84-842: The "Hamburg Bach"); and Johann Gottfried Bernhard . All four were musically talented, and Wilhelm Friedeman and Carl Philipp Emanuel had significant musical careers of their own. After his first wife died, Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken , a gifted soprano and daughter of the court trumpeter of Prince Saxe-Weissenfels . They had 13 children, of whom Johann Christoph Friedrich (the "Bückeburg Bach") and Johann Christian (the "London Bach") became significant musicians. A further four survived into adulthood: Gottfried Heinrich ; Elisabeth Juliane Friederica (1726–1781), who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol ; Johanna Carolina (1737–1781); and Regina Susanna (1742–1809). Of Bach's surviving children, only five married. Of these, Johann Christian had no children from his marriage to
98-739: The Berlin State Library for conservation. Bach family The Bach family is a family of notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735 when he was 50 and was continued by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel . Of the seven children that Johann Sebastian Bach had with his first wife Maria Barbara Bach , his second cousin, four survived into adulthood: Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708–1774); Wilhelm Friedemann ; Carl Philipp Emanuel (the "Berlin Bach", later
112-526: The Sing-Akademie's archive, published a selection of these compositions, an edition which was reprinted in 1966. ABA numbers derive from this publication in two volumes. The original manuscripts of the Sing-Akademie's archive went lost during the Second World War , only to be rediscovered in Ukraine in 1999, after which they were returned to the Sing-Akademie, which in turn deposited the recovered manuscripts in
126-406: The longest. She died in 1871 – the last of Bach's descendants to hold the Bach name. Bach has living descendants via two granddaughters born to Friedemann and Johann Christoph Friedrich, respectively. Anna Philippine Friederike (1755–1804), sister of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, married Wilhelm Ernst Colson, a lieutenant in an artillery regiment. They had five sons and a daughter. Whereas this bloodline
140-732: The soprano Cecilia Grassi. Carl Philipp Emanuel, who married Johanna Maria Dannemann, had three surviving children. Of these children the youngest, Johann Sebastian (1748–1778) was a gifted painter who died young. None of Emanuel's children married or had offspring, with his bloodline dying out with the death of his daughter Anna Carolina Philippina (1746–1804). Elisabeth Juliane Friederica, known as Liesgen, with Altnickol had three surviving children. Their only son, Johann Sebastian, died in infancy in 1740. The elder daughter, Augusta Magdalena (1751–1809) married Ernest Friedrich Ahlefeldt and had four daughters, of whom only one, Christiane Johanne (1780–1816) survived. From her marriage to Paul Johann Müller,
154-561: The time attributed to Johann Christoph Bach , were published in the early 1820s. The manuscripts of two compositions contained in the Sing-Akademie's part of the ABA collection were sold to the Royal Library in Berlin (later renamed as Berlin State Library ): thus BNB I/B/11 and BWV 1164 were no longer in the Sing-Akademie's archives by the end of the 19th century. In 1935 Max Schneider , recovering ABA manuscripts scattered in
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#1733085864010168-609: Was Dreyblatt, a concerto for piano involving six hands. He wrote it in such a way in that it was to be performed with one large male in the middle with a petite female on either side of him. Ernst Bach indicated that the man was to stretch his arms around the ladies to play the outside parts, while the ladies performed the middle parts. He is buried at the Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin . Ernst Bach married twice. His only son (by his second wife) died in infancy. The first born of his three daughters, Caroline Augusta Wilhelmine, lived
182-659: Was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia . He said, "Heredity can tend to run out of ideas." Ernst Bach received training in music from his uncle, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , and from another uncle in England, Johann Christian Bach . He was in London when Johann Christian Bach died there on New Year's Day , 1782. Ernst Bach remained in England until 1784 before returning via Holland to Germany. He held
196-475: Was traditionally assumed to have died out with this generation, one of her sons, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1778–1831) married and had offspring with progeny to the modern day. Friedemann married Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi and had two sons and a daughter. Both sons died in infancy. During the 20th-century scholarship has uncovered several children born to his daughter Friederica Sophia (b. 1757), which were hitherto unknown. Friederica Sophia married Johann Schmidt,
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