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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born November 22, 1710 • Weimar • Germany
Died July 1, 1784 (aged 73) • Berlin • Germany
Movement / Style Baroque music • empfindsamer Stil
Notable Family Members father Johann Sebastian Bach

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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
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Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer

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