1798) whose descendants eventually emigrated to Oklahoma. 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. In 1780 she had given birth to an illegitimate son, of which nothing further is known. Of this child and a sister little is known. Friederica Sophia married Johann Schmidt, a footsoldier in 1793 shortly after the birth of an illegitimate daughter. During the 20th-century scholarship has uncovered several children born to his daughter Friederica Sophia (b. įriedemann married Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi and would have two sons and a daughter. While this bloodline 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. They would have five sons and a daughter. Anna Philippine Friederike (1755–1804), sister of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, married Wilhelm Ernst Colson, a lieutenant in an artillery regiment. īach has living descendants via two granddaughters born to Friedemann and Johann Christoph Friedrich, respectively. She died in 1871 – the last of Bach's descendants to hold the Bach name. The first born of his three daughters, Caroline Augusta Wilhelmine, lived the longest. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia. Of the next generation, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, also known as William Bach ( – 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. From her marriage to Paul Johann Müller, a daughter, Augusta Wilhelmina (1809–1818) was born, though she would die as an infant, ending this line of Bach's descendants. The elder daughter, Augusta Magdalena (1751–1809) married Ernest Friedrich Ahlefeldt and have four daughters, of whom only one, Christiane Johanne (1780–1816) would survive. Their only son, Johann Sebastian died in infancy in 1740. Įlisabeth Juliane Friederica, known as Liesgen, with Altnickol had three surviving children. None of Emanuel's children would marry or have offspring, with his bloodline dying out with the death of his daughter Anna Carolina Philippina (1746–1804). Of these children the youngest, Johann Sebastian (1748–1778) was a gifted painter who died young. Carl Philipp Emanuel, who married Johanna Maria Dannemann, would have three surviving children. Of these, Johann Christian would have no children from his marriage to the soprano Cecilia Grassi. Of Bach's surviving children, only five would marry. 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). They had 13 children, of whom Johann Christoph Friedrich (the "Bückeburg Bach") and Johann Christian (the "London Bach") became significant musicians. Īfter his first wife died, Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a gifted soprano and daughter of the court trumpeter of Prince Saxe-Weissenfels. All four were musically talented, and Wilhelm Friedeman and Carl Philipp Emanuel had significant musical careers of their own. 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 the "Hamburg Bach") and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. Another descendant of Veit Bach, Johann Ludwig, was revered more than any other ancestor by Johann Sebastian, who copied twelve of his church cantatas and sometimes added work of his own to them. The latter was once thought to be the author of the motet Ich lasse dich nicht (I will not leave you), which is now confirmed to be Johann Sebastian Bach's ( BWV 159a). Johann Ambrosius' uncle, Heinrich of Arnstadt, had two sons: Johann Michael and Johann Christoph.
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