My Dear Family...

While working as organist at St. Blasius's in Mühlhausen, I married (happily) to my second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach. We had seven children, but three did not make it to adulthood..... While at Weimar, I composed The Little Organ Book for his eldest son, Wilhelm. On July 7, 1720, while Bach was away, my faithful wife died unexpectedly.
The following year, the I met Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a young, gifted soprano 17 years my junior, and we married on December 3, 1721. Together we had 13 more children; sadly, only 7 survived to adulthood, and three of them became talented musicians.
Two of my children from Mary Barbara; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, became composers in the Rococo style that followed the Baroque.
I'm so proud of them!
My Family.....