The story of a wife’s neglected genius finds a willing audience, despite a nearly total lack of evidence. A musicologist who posits that J.S. Bach’s second wife was a homewrecker who drove his first ...

A professor of music has boldly claimed that Bach's wife, Anna Magdalena, was the real composer of her husband's best-known pieces. Historians have long said that Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena, helped ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. https://p.dw.com/p/4hI6S Portrait of a ...

So, the shocking truth is out. Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of the great JS Bach, was more than just the humble copyist of her husband’s music. She actually composed some of it. This is the theory ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Dryden Ensemble presents "Anna Magdalena Bach: Her Story" on Sunday, ...

Bach's authorship of his famous cello suites was under assault last week at a Bach symposium. It remains to be seen whether scholars agree with the assertion that some of the suites were written by ...

Eight women played an important role in the life of composer JS Bach and in his family's musical tradition. An exhibition in the Berlin Cathedral shows how the role of women evolved in Bach's time and ...

Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in 1721 married the legendary classical composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). However, Anna Magdalena went down in music history ...

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 ...