The true Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
21 March, Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, is also an opportunity to remember Anna Magdalena Bach, his second wife. Recent research has shed new light on her early career as a singer as well as on her essential role as a copyist within the Bach household. Admired for her musical talents, she was known in Leipzig as “the woman Kapellmeister”, a title reflecting the admiration she inspired among her contemporaries.
