Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was the eldest child of J. S. Bach. He was born on November 22nd, 1710 in Weimar, Germany. Friedemann’s teachers were his father J S. Bach and Graun. Friedemann's students included Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Friedemann married Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi (1751), she outlived him by seven years. Together they had two sons and a daughter, Friederica Sophia (born in 1757), who was the only one of their offspring to live past infancy. Friedemann died July 1st, 1784 in Berlin, Germany.