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. A rare portrait of Anna Magdalena Bach around 1710. Bach's wife earned ...

The concert program Anna Magdalena Songbook: Home Suite Home sheds a fascinating light on the domestic life of Johann Sebastian Bach—and takes some creative liberties, too. The great composer’s second ...

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.

Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1968 bio-pic about the composer Johann Sebastian Bach illuminates the artistic conflicts of their own time. The harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt ...

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 ...