Gottfried Heinrich Bach

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Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born February 26, 1724 in Leipzig , † February 12, 1763 in Naumburg ) was the first-born son from the second marriage of Johann Sebastian Bach to Anna Magdalena, nee. Wilcke. He suffered from a learning disability and was presumably mentally retarded; in the court file on Johann Sebastian Bach's estate he is described as "stupid". After the death of his father he lived with his sister Elisabeth and his brother-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol . It is possible that he wrote a small piano piece as well as the melody of the aria So Oft ich mein Tobackspfeife BWV 515 from the piano booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach .

He is also mentioned in the chronicle of the Bach family, which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote: "... inclinates also to music, inspecie to the piano." Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach added: "Was a great genius, but which was not developed."

See also

literature

  • Walter Kolneder: Lübbes Bach Lexicon. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, ISBN 3-404-61288-4 , pp. 36-37.
  • Philipp Spitta: Johann Sebastian Bach. Volume 2. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1880, p. 751 ( online at Zeno.org .).
  • Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach. New edition. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5 , pp. 431-433; 496-497.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Philipp Spitta: Johann Sebastian Bach. Volume 2. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1880, p. 962 ( online at Zeno.org .).
  2. ↑ Georg von Dadelsen : Comments on the handwriting of Johann Sebastian Bach, his family and his circle (= Tübingen Bach Studies 1). Hohner, Trossingen 1957, p. 19 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Georg von Dadelsen: Afterword. In: JS Bach: Little piano book for Anna Magdalena Bach 1725. Facsimile of the original manuscript. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 1986, p. 6 f.
  4. ↑ Werner Neumann, Hans-Joachim Schulze (Ed.): Documents from the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach . Bear rider; German For music, Kassel and Leipzig 1963, p. 261 .
  5. ↑ Georg von Dadelsen: About Bach and others. Essays and lectures 1957-1982 . Laaber-Verl., Laaber 1983, ISBN 3-921518-97-0 , p. 130 .
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Gottfried Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of Johann Sebastian Bach
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1763
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)