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Bach Babies in Music Regina Susanna Bach (1742-1809)

Georg Predota — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:39:12 +0000

The last of Johann Sebastian Bach’s surviving children, Regina Susanna Bach, was born in 1742. At that time, Bach was 57 years of age, and he started to experience a number of health issues. Most serious was an affliction to

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Bach Babies in Music Johanna Carolina Bach (1737-81)

Georg Predota — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:13:21 +0000

Johanna Carolina Bach was baptised on 30 October 1737 in the midst of a severe professional crisis for her father. It all started on 14 May 1737 when the German-Danish composer, theorist and critic of music Johann Adolf Scheibe published

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Bach Babies in Music Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

Georg Predota — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:10:44 +0000

Johann Christian Bach was born on 5 September 1735, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. Johann Sebastian was nearly 50 at the time of his birth, and he supervised his son’s early

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A Tour of Boston, 1924 Vernon Duke’s Homage to Boston

Maureen Buja — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:35:55 +0000

Vernon Duke (Vladimir Dukelsky) (1903-1969) arrived in New York in 1921. He, his mother, and his brother had been living in Kiev and fled Russia and the Russian Revolution, which began in 1917, first going to Constantinople before continuing to

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Bach Babies in Music Johann August Abraham Bach (1733-33)

Georg Predota — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:30:11 +0000

Once Bach had arrived in Leipzig, he cultivated and maintained connections with the city’s political, commercial, and clerical establishment as well as its intellectual elite. He received support from high-ranking state dignitaries and conducted regular business with town, church, and

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Bach Babies in Music Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-95)

Georg Predota — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:06:08 +0000

Johann Christoph Friedrich, known as the ”Bückeburg Bach”, was born in Leipzig on 21 June 1732 and baptised two days later. He was the 16th of Johann Sebastian Bach’s twenty children and the 9th child from his marriage to Anna

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Mozart Makes Another Quodlibet

Maureen Buja — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:14:45 +0000

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) wrote his first quodlibet (a work that combines popular melodies of the day) at age 10, it was designed to show off both his keyboard skills and knowledge of music, a later quodlibet had a

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Bach Babies in Music Christiana Dorothea Bach (1731-32)

Georg Predota — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:58:24 +0000

Over the years, Anna Magdalena Bach fulfilled many different roles. Above all, she mothered a large and steadily increasing family. When she married the widower Bach, she took on four small children, and subsequently gave birth to thirteen children over

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Bach Babies in Music Christiana Benedicta (1729-30)

Georg Predota — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:30:44 +0000

Carl Philipp Emanuel remembered the Bach household in Leipzig as a “pigeon coop,” with people swarming in and out all the time. Conversing with the Bach biographer Forkel, Carl Philipp recounts, “With his many activities Bach hardly had time for

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Bach Babies in Music Regina Johanna Bach (1728-33)

Georg Predota — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:15:33 +0000

The position of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig was one of the most esteemed musical positions in Germany. Bach’s duties were demanding and varied, and he was certainly the most important musician in town. In charge of music at

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