They say that someone copying music would write in a heavy, slow style. This beautiful menuet, Menuet in G minor BWV Anh. The researchers believe that, due to the nature of the corrections and the fact that the writing is light, she was actually composing the works as she wrote them down. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (Bach, Johann Sebastian) Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (Bach, Johann. Matthäuspassion, BWV 244 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) Minuet in G major, BWV Anh.114 (Pezold, Christian) N. Heidi Harralson, a forensic document examiner, backed Jarvis's view, saying she is sure "within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty" that Anna Magdalena was most likely the composer of these works. 6 Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C major, BWV 1061 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) M. The three works were the 'Aria' from the Goldberg Variations the first Prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1) and possibly some of the Cello Suites. 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Herbert Collum has a BPM of 97 and. La primera edición de La pequeña crónica de Anna Magdalena Bach ( The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach, 1925), una autobiografía sobre la segunda esposa del compositor Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), apareció como si se tratara de una obra anónima. Bach's second wife was (perhaps) far more than just a scribe.Īfter conducting forensic analysis of the ink and handwriting style in Bach manuscripts, Jarvis concluded that three of Bach's most celebrated works were actually penned by Anna Magdalena, who was his second wife. Aus dem Klavierbchlein fr Anna Magdalena Bach 1725: No. Domestically, she was his companion, mother, wife, manager of a busy household and occasional performer on musical evenings. Professionally, she was a talented singer, assistant, copyist, and public performance partner alongside her husband. Historians have long said that Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena, helped her husband by writing out his compositions.īut in his 2014 documentary, Martin Jarvis, a professor of music at Charles Darwin University in Australia, dropped the bombshell that J.S. Anna Magdalena Bach juggled multiple important roles during her lifetime.