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“He who does not find the gift and perfect wisdom of God in His wonderful works of music, is truly a clod, and is not worthy to be considered a man.” – Martin Luther Morning hymn at Sebastian Bachs' (Toby Edward Rosenthal, 1870) https://interlude.hk/bach-babies-in-music-christian-gottlieb-bach-1725-1728/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_family https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/12/weihnachtsoratorium-jauchzet-frohlocket.html https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2026/06/7-steps-to-family-worship-by-voddie.html |
Harmony is next to Godliness. - Johann Sebastian Bach
UPDATED: AUGUST 22, 2026
J.S Bach fathered 20
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Q: How many children did J.S. Bach have? A: Loads. Here’s what we know.
9 December 2021, 18:23
209 surviving church cantatas, dozens of concertos, countless organ preludes and fugues. And 20 children. J.S. Bach was a very busy man.
Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wives Maria Barbara (m. 1707–1720) and Anna Magdalena (m. 1721–1750), fathered 20 children over his lifetime. His first was born in 1708 when Bach was 23, with his last coming into the world in 1742, when the composer was 57. Sadly, only ten survived through to adulthood.
The Bachs were always a musical family with a house full of instruments – and Johann Sebastian was always keen to compose pieces for his wife, children and the community they lived in.
Here they are, in order of their birth. It's a long list – there's a lot of musical talent, many fascinating stories, and tragedies for the family as well...
1. Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708 – 1774)
Bach's first born child. Composing wasn't an option for women in those days but Catharina excelled as a singer and often helped her father with his work.
Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann, and Johann Christoph Friedrich
2. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)
J.S. Bach's eldest son with his first wife, Maria Barbara. Wilhelm followed in his father's footsteps and became a composer. J.S. Bach even wrote Wilhelm a graded course of keyboard studies, called the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Thanks to his intensive musical training, Wilhelm went on to become an organist and taught none other than Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, the man whose name is immortalised in the great Goldberg Variations.
3 & 4. Johann Christoph Bach and Maria Sophia Bach (Born and died in 1713)
J.S. Bach's third and fourth children, twins, were born on 23 February 1713 when Bach was 28. Johann Christoph lived no longer than a few hours after his birth, and his sister died a few weeks later, around the 13 March 1713.
The most prominent of
Bach family [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/bach/comments/d6hm67/a_quick_view_at_the_most_prominent_members_of_the/]
5. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
Arguably the most gifted of J.S. Bach’s offspring, C.P.E. Bach was a highly original composer of symphonies, keyboard and choral music. Building on the Baroque training he learned as a boy, he became one of the foremost clavier players in Europe (after studying for a degree in law). His Essay on the True Art of Keyboard Playing established him as the leading keyboard teacher of the time. He formed a musical bridge between the Baroque and Classical eras. “He is the father, we are the children,” Mozart said of C.P.E. Bach.
C.P.E. Bach’s position as court musician to Frederick the Great also included the task of providing accompaniment on the keyboard for the king’s flute solos. Frederick believed himself to be a much better flautist than he was and often took liberties with the tempo. At the end of one royal performance, a delighted sycophant exclaimed, “Your Majesty, what rhythm!” C.P.E. Bach is said to have muttered under his breath, “What rhythms!”
6. Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715 - 1739)
Johann Gottfried was born on 11 May 1715 and, as was the case with his brothers, went on to become a professional musician. Unlike them, however, he didn't have the opportunity to go to university, and secretly abandoned his musical career in order to study law. He died at the tender age of 24.
7. Leopold Augustus Bach (1718 - 1719)
Born on 15 November, Bach's seventh child lived for ten short months, and was buried on 29 September 1719. His godfather, a prince, also named Leopold, employed Bach as Kapellmeister between 1717 and 1723.
8. Christina Sophia Henrietta (1723 - 1726)
After Bach's wife Maria Barbara died, he went on to marry Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Their first daughter was born in 1723, the same year Bach signed a contract to become the Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but died three years later.
9. Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724 - 1763)
It's thought Gottfried was mildly mentally handicapped in some way, signs of which were picked up from an early age. Luckily he had plenty of supportive siblings: C.P.E. Bach said his younger brother showed a 'great genius, which failed to develop'.
10. Christian Gottlieb Bach (1725 - 1728)
Another tragically short-lived son, Christian Gottlieb only survived three years. He died on 21 September 1728.
11. Elisabeth Juliana Friederica (1726 - 1781)
1726 marks a year of joy and tragedy for the Bach family – just two months after Elisabeth was born, her elder sister Christiana died at the age of three. Elisabeth, however, survived into adulthood, and went on to marry one of her father's pupils, German organist Johann Christoph Altnikol.
12. Ernestus Andreas Bach (Born and died in 1727)
13. Regina Johanna Bach (1728 - 1733)
14. Christiana Benedicta Louise (Born and died in 1730)
15. Christiana Dorothea Bach (1731 - 1732)
Very little is known about these four young Bachs who died in childhood.
Familie Bach [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.bachonbach.com/johann-sebastian-bach-11-topics/a-johann-sebastian-bach-cartoon-film/
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16. Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795)
After a period of tragedy, Bach's ninth son was born: the confusingly named Johann Christoph Bach, not to be confused with Bach's first cousin once removed, Bach's uncle and Bach's eldest brother… also all called Johann Christoph. Less confusingly, he's often referred to as the 'Bückeburg Bach', named after a town in Lower Saxony where he played the harpsichord professionally. Like so many of the Bach brothers before him, he was a prodigious classical composer, who wrote pieces heavily influenced by the fashion for Italian music. He even visited London and had a few works published, but little of his music survives today.
His
eldest son, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759 – 1845) was the only grandson of
J.S. Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick
William II of Prussia. "Heredity can tend to run out of ideas," he
said.
17. Johann August Abraham Bach (Born and died in 1733)
Young Johann August only survived one day after his baptism on 5 November.
“Music is an agreeable
harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” — Johann Sebastian
Bach Anabaptist Orchestra
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18.
Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
Known as the 'English Bach', J.C. Bach travelled to Italy and converted to Roman Catholicism, before settling in London in the service of Queen Charlotte, hence his nickname 'The London Bach'. He became a well-known classical composer, and an influence on Mozart's concertos. J.C. composed cantatas, orchestral works, keyboard music, operas and symphonies, which sounded very different in style from his father's Baroque works. J.S. Bach was already 50 when J.C. was born, and musical styles of the time were growing increasingly 'classical'.
19. Johanna Carolina Bach (1737 - 1781)
20. Regina Susanna Bach (1742 - 1809)
Bach's 19th and 20th children, both daughters, survived well into their adulthood, although neither ever married. While little is known about Johanna, Regina was acquainted with Beethoven; he even asked for proceeds from the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 to be donated to her. Despite collections being made in honour of her famous father, she died in poverty.
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J.S.Bach - Family, Loss, and Music as Daily Life Few aspects of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life reveal the human cost of his era more starkly than his family history. Bach fathered 20 children through two marriages—seven with Maria Barbara Bach and thirteen with Anna Magdalena Bach—yet only about half survived infancy or early childhood. This was not exceptional for the early eighteenth century, but its emotional weight was nonetheless profound. Child mortality was an ever-present reality. Illness, infection, and inadequate medical care meant that death entered the household repeatedly, often without warning. Bach buried children in Weimar, Köthen, and Leipzig, sometimes during periods of intense professional activity. There is no evidence of public lamentation, but the silence of the sources should not be mistaken for indifference. In Bach’s world, grief was absorbed into daily life, not dramatized. What makes the Bach household remarkable is that music continued relentlessly, not as escape, but as structure, continuity, and meaning. Music as Domestic Language In the Bach home, music was not reserved for church or court. It was woven into the fabric of everyday existence: · children learned to sing before they could read fluently · keyboard instruction was routine, not exceptional · copying music was a shared family task · evenings often became informal concerts Anna Magdalena Bach, herself a professional singer, played a crucial role. She copied vast quantities of Bach’s music, taught the children, and participated actively in music-making. The household functioned as a living workshop, where composition, rehearsal, pedagogy, and family life were inseparable. Music served practical purposes—education, discipline, income—but also something deeper. In a home marked by frequent loss, music offered order where life was fragile. Chorales were sung not as aesthetic objects, but as statements of belief and consolation. Counterpoint trained the mind; routine anchored emotion. Children, Training, and Continuity Surviving children were trained rigorously. Bach did not separate fatherhood from pedagogy. His sons grew up surrounded by: · instruments within reach · manuscripts on tables and shelves · constant musical example Several sons—most famously Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach—would later describe this environment as demanding, intense, and formative. Music was never optional. It was the grammar of family life. Meaning in Context Seen from a modern perspective, the number of children and the scale of loss can feel overwhelming. Yet for Bach, family life was not chaos. It was ordered, purposeful, and sustained by music. The household did not retreat inward in grief; it moved forward through routine, sound, and shared labor. This context matters profoundly for understanding Bach’s art. His music is often described as monumental or abstract, but it was forged in a domestic world where: · children practiced scales nearby · manuscripts were copied at kitchen tables · death and life coexisted daily Bach’s ability to create music of immense spiritual depth while living amid such fragility suggests not detachment, but integration. Music was not separate from life. It was how life was endured, structured, and passed on. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YX5s6Dx46/] https://interlude.hk/what-happened-to-bachs-twenty-children/ |
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J.S.BACH: Family Tragedy: Death of Many Children While Johann Sebastian Bach is celebrated as one of the greatest musical minds in Western history, his life was also marked by profound and repeated personal loss, particularly within his family. Over the course of his two marriages, Bach fathered 20 children, yet only 10 survived infancy or early childhood. This staggering toll—though not uncommon in the early 18th century—was a constant source of grief and sorrow for a man whose life was deeply rooted in family, faith, and devotion. Two Marriages, Twenty Children Bach’s first wife, Maria Barbara Bach, was his second cousin. They married in 1707 and had seven children, four of whom died young. Maria Barbara herself died suddenly in 1720 while Bach was away on a trip with Prince Leopold of Köthen. When he returned, he found she had been buried without his knowledge—an event that reportedly left him shocked and devastated. In 1721, he married Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a talented young soprano who sang at the Köthen court. Together, they had thirteen children, of whom six died in infancy. The family home—first in Köthen, then in Leipzig—was thus a place of both musical vitality and frequent mourning. Cradles were built and dismantled; names were given and then inscribed in funeral records. The sound of infant cries was as common as the sound of church bells for burials. Surviving Children: A Musical Legacy Among the children who did survive were several who became accomplished musicians in their own right: · Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), renowned for his improvisation · Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), perhaps the most famous of Bach’s sons during the 18th century · Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795), known as the “Bückeburg Bach” · Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), the “London Bach,” who would influence Mozart Yet behind these successes lies the haunting absence of the ten whose names rarely appear, except in sparse parish death registers. There were funerals before first birthdays. Mourning clothes followed baptismal gowns. And in a household so filled with music, the silence left by a lost child must have been deafening. Emotional Impact and Artistic Expression Though Bach rarely expressed personal emotion in writing, many scholars believe that his music speaks volumes about his inner life. His Passions, cantatas of mourning, and arias of resignation and comfort bear the unmistakable emotional imprint of a man acquainted with grief. The “Ich habe genug” cantata (BWV 82), for instance, composed in 1727, speaks of the soul’s longing for release, rest, and reunion with the divine. Though written for the liturgical calendar, it may also reflect personal sorrow and spiritual acceptance. Bach’s faith, grounded in Lutheran theology, offered him a framework of hope and purpose even amid loss. But there is no doubt that his music became a vessel through which sorrow could be transfigured into beauty and faith into harmony. PAINTING: Here is the emotionally powerful depiction of Bach and Anna Magdalena grieving the loss of one of their children. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/194xWuCzpm/]
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Johann Sebastian Bach buried more of his children than most people ever have. Across his life, he lost something on the order of ten of them — and a wife besides — and he answered that grief by writing some of the most luminous music the human species has ever produced. The question that has haunted listeners for three centuries is simple: how does a man survive that much loss and still compose cathedrals of sound? Bach was not only a genius. He was a man acquainted with grief in a way that is hard to fully absorb. He married his first wife, Maria Barbara, in 1707, and they had seven children together, several of whom died very young, as so many children did in that era. Then, in 1720, Bach returned home from a trip to discover that Maria Barbara herself had died and already been buried while he was away. He had left a wife and come home to a grave. He was left a widower with young children to raise. In 1721 he married again, to Anna Magdalena, a gifted singer who became his musical partner as well as his wife. Together they had thirteen more children. And together they buried most of them. Of the roughly twenty children Bach fathered across both marriages, only about half survived to adulthood, and several of those he outlived as well. Infant death, childhood illness, the small coffins of the eighteenth century — Bach knew all of it intimately, over and over, decade after decade. Each loss was a piece of his own heart lowered into the ground. And the question presses in: how does someone keep breathing through that? How does the heart keep beating after the tenth funeral, the fifteenth? How does a person not simply lie down and refuse to rise? And then the harder question, the one that makes Bach's life almost incomprehensible from the outside: how did he not only survive it, but keep creating — keep producing cantatas and Masses, the cello suites, the passions, the concertos, an ocean of music so beautiful that people three centuries later still weep listening to it? Bach left a clue, and it is hidden in plain sight on the pages of his manuscripts. At the top of many of his scores, before he wrote a single note, he wrote a small prayer — in effect, Lord, help me. And at the bottom, when the work was finished, he wrote three letters: S.D.G., standing for Soli Deo Gloria — glory to God alone. He bracketed his creative labor between a plea for help and an offering of thanks. The music began in dependence and ended in gratitude. Whatever else was collapsing in his life, that frame held. This is the thing that explains the survival, as much as anything can explain it. For Bach, music was not merely a craft or a career or even an art. It was prayer. It was the place where his grief and his faith met and became something other than despair. When he sat down to write after burying another child, he was not escaping his sorrow or denying it. He was carrying it somewhere — lifting it up, turning it into an offering, letting it pass through him and become sound. The music was a conversation between a suffering man and the God he refused to stop addressing, even when that God had let him bury his own children again and again. That is why his music does not sound like the work of a man who had it easy. Listen closely and you can hear it — a profound seriousness, a depth of feeling that only someone who has known real loss could produce, running underneath even the most joyful passages. The serenity in Bach is not the serenity of someone untouched by pain. It is the hard-won peace of someone who walked straight through the worst that life can do and came out the other side still singing. The beauty is so moving precisely because it was built on top of so much sorrow, like a great structure raised over a foundation of buried grief. Bach's music, then, is more than sound. It is the record of a human soul refusing to be destroyed. It is what faith looks like when it is translated into art — not a denial of suffering, but a response to it. When you listen to one of his sublime melodies, you are hearing a man who lost almost everything and still chose, day after day, to make something beautiful and offer it up. Lord, help me, at the top of the page. Glory to God alone, at the bottom. And in between, against every reason to fall silent, the most exquisite music ever written, composed by hands that had lowered too many small coffins into the earth and somehow kept reaching for the keys. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gw217FGaz/] |
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Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent
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Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and
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Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and
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Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye
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I do for God in a sense of the work component.”
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15 And
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16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in
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