If fame is in the name, then Anna Magdalena Bach is history’s most recognizable, indeed celebrated, musical woman. It wasn’t always so. During the grim poverty of her last decade she had already been ...

A scene from Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (image courtesy Grasshopper Film) One of the striking features of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in 1721 ...

A look at the life of Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcke. She married Bach when she was 20 and the following year Bach compiled his celebrated Anna Magdalena Notebook for her.

A professor of music has boldly claimed that Bach's wife, Anna Magdalena, was the real composer of her husband's best-known pieces. Historians have long said that Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena, helped ...

So, the shocking truth is out. Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of the great JS Bach, was more than just the humble copyist of her husband’s music. She actually composed some of it. This is the theory ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. A rare portrait of Anna Magdalena Bach around 1710. Bach's wife earned ...