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Maria Barbara Bach

1684 - 1720

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Maria Barbara Bach (30 October [O.S. 20 October] 1684 – buried 7 July 1720) was a German singer and the first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Barbara Bach has received more than 216,508 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Maria Barbara Bach is the 200th most popular companion (up from 211th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from Germany (up from 788th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Companion.

Maria Barbara Bach is most famous for her work with the Bach family of composers. She was a singer and keyboard player, and she married Johann Sebastian Bach in 1707.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.11

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  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Maria Barbara Bach ranks 200 out of 784Before her are Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Constance of Austria, Philippa of Lancaster, Joanna la Beltraneja, Jabir ibn Abd Allah, and Amélie of Orléans. After her are Eleanor of Castile, Adela of Champagne, Berenice II of Egypt, María Isabella of Spain, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Matilda of Ringelheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Maria Barbara Bach ranks 4Before her are Catherine I of Russia, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Ludvig Holberg. After her are Francesco Durante, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Gottfried Walther, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Robert Maynard, Kimpa Vita, and Edward Vernon. Among people deceased in 1720, Maria Barbara Bach ranks 4Before her are Sukjong of Joseon, Calico Jack, and Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg. After her are Edward England, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Antoine Coysevox, Anne Dacier, Peter Tordenskjold, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and Balaji Vishwanath.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maria Barbara Bach ranks 746 out of 7,253Before her are John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), David Strauss (1808), Günter Schabowski (1929), and Erich Priebke (1913). After her are Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Arthur Nebe (1894), Christopher Clavius (1538), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371), and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551).

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