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Bach, Anna Magdalena  

David Yearsley

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25 November 2024

[née WilckeWülcke]

Member of Bach family.

(b Sept 22, 1701, Zeitz; d Feb 17, 1760, Leipzig). German singer, keyboard player, music copyist, teacher, and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach. Surviving contemporary documents, including those signed by her, use a German feminine form for her married surname, ‘Bachin.’ She began her career as a well-paid musician; in various documents she is called ‘princely court Singer’ (fürstl[liche]. Sängerin); ‘chamber musician’ (Cammer-Musicantin) and ‘Frau Capellmeisterin’ (Madame Music-Director); she was an integral collaborator in the Bach family’s musical success. Later in her life, she acted as music manager of Leipzig church services and as sales agent for influential musical works such as her husband’s Art of Fugue (bwv1080) and the Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (part 1, 1753), a keyboard treatise by her stepson Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Anna Magdalena Wilcke was born into a family of musicians. Her mother, Margaretha Elisabeth Wilcke née Liebe (...

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Banister, Jafery  

Peter Holman

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20 January 2001
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2001

[Jeffrey]

Member of Banister family

(bur. London, Sept 2, 1684). English violinist, music copyist, and composer. He was sworn in as an extraordinary member of the 24 Violins on 27 October 1662, and received a salaried place from Michaelmas 1663. The text of Thomas Duffett's masque Beauty's Triumph (London, 1676) shows that he and James Hart were running a ‘New Boarding-School for Young Ladies and Gentlewomen’ in Chelsea. He apparently left royal service in February 1684, when he was given a passport to travel abroad, but died that summer, probably before he could undertake the trip. He seems to have been the copyist of two violin books ( GB-En 5777, and Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh, GD 45/26/104) that originate respectively from Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, and Panmure House, Angus, suggesting that he had worked for the Ker and Maule families in Scotland or London. The latter contains a suite signed ‘Jafery Bannester’....

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Withy, Francis  

Robert Thompson

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20 January 2001
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2001

Member of Withy family

(b c1645; bur. Oxford, Dec 14, 1727). English cathedral singer, string player, music copyist, teacher, and composer, son of John Withy. From 1670 until his death he was a singing-man at Christ Church, Oxford. He played the violin in Edward Lowe’s act song ...