Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759 - 1845) is the son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and thus one of small wire of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Biography
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach is born on May 23rd 1759 in a family from musicians. He was baptized with Bückeburg on May 27th 1759 and followed the teaching of his father before leaving for London, in his uncle Johann Christoph who accommodated it of 1778 to 1782. He began in the English capital a career of virtuoso of the Clavecin but the death of his/her uncle forced it to return in Germany, giving concerts in France and Holland.
Wilhelm Friedrich was then named in 1787 at the position of director of the music with Minden (close to Bückeburg) and was then destined for Berlin, at the court of Frederic-Guillaume II of Prussia which entrusted to him the musical training of his/her children. Fourteen years during, it held the harpsichord and the Piano and was even the personal harpsichordist of the queen. At that time, it took Filipino Charlotte Henriette Elerdt for wife on January 21st 1798. She will die three years and half after him to have later given two girls. It will have then two wire with Wilhelmine Susanne Albrecht which it marries on August 2nd 1802.
In 1811, Wilhelm Friedrich takes its retirement and will have the honor to see celebrated the memory of Johann Sebastian: it assists, on April 23rd 1843, with Leipzig, the erection of a monument in the honor of his large father. He dies in Berlin little after December 25th 1845.
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