Gottfried_Heinrich_Bach

Gottfried Heinrich Bach

Gottfried Heinrich Bach

Son of composer J. S. Bach (1724 - 1763)

Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born: 26 February 1724 – funeral: 12 February 1763) was a child of Johann Sebastian Bach and the firstborn son of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He was born in Leipzig, where his parents had moved the year before his birth.

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Gottfried Heinrich became "feeble-minded" (mentally disabled in some way)[1] at an early age, but in his childhood he played the keyboard well and C. P. E. Bach is quoted as saying that he showed "a great genius, which however failed to develop".[2]

After the death of his father in 1750 Gottfried Heinrich continued to live with his mother Anna Magdalena Bach. He received financial support from the town.[3] His mother died in 1760. It is not known why Gottfried Heinrich was buried in Naumburg in 1763. At this time his sister Elisabeth Juliana Friderica Altnikol had not lived there for some years.[4] She had moved from Leipzig to Naumburg when she married Johann Christoph Altnikol in 1749, where her husband was employed as an organist. After his death in 1759 she returned to Leipzig with her two daughters.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Eberhard Spree: Die verwitwete Frau Capellmeisterin Bach. Studie über die Verteilung des Nachlasses von Johann Sebastian Bach. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2019, p. 59.
  2. [2]
    Bach-Dokumente. Band I, p. 267.
  3. [3]
    Eberhard Spree: Die verwitwete Frau Capellmeisterin Bach. Studie über die Verteilung des Nachlasses von Johann Sebastian Bach. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2019, p. 58–61.
  4. [4]
    Maria Hübner: Anna Magdalena Bach. Ein Leben in Dokumenten und Bildern. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, p. 110.
  5. [5]
    Eberhard Spree: Die Frau Capellmeisterin Anna Magdalena Bach. Ein Zeitbild. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2021, p. 159.


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