is it true that Bach's wife wrote his greatest works?

Purely on stylistic grounds, I think it more likely they were composed by his sister, Fanny.

It is common knowledge that Bach's dog, "JS Bark", was responsible for the majority of his ostensible output. It is only the remaining few works that can be attributed to his wife with any certainty. In an odd twist of the laws of probability, the works by JS Bark are still yet to be written, as he is a time-travelling dog from the year 2650. This makes writing any scholarly articles about the whole situation quite problematic due to the grammatical issues relating to tenses.

I'm writing my thesis on how it was JS Bach who actually gave birth to CPE Bach.

My suspicion was first raised when I realised that CPE was born SEVEN YEARS before he met Anna Magdalena.

Obviously there will be a backlash from "the establishment".

Interesting how in the series of jokes, the composers mentioned were always men, so it was always their wives this and that. Careless too, with Wourinen's wife actually being a husband....

So what about it? What about Clara Schumann's husband? What was he up to? And Alma Mahler's husband? What's more, what about Judith Weir's husband or Diana Salazar's husband? Or Jennifer Higdon's husband? Oh wait. The Wourinen effect has entered into it.

But really. Since the husbands of female composers are men, then it's really likely that all of the compositions by these women were actually written by their husbands.

And the lesbians? Well, obviously, they had to find other men to write their music for them. Stands to reason. Girls can't write music. Who are these shadowy male figures who write music for lesbian composers? There's your History Channel material for ya!!

Yep. Totally true.

No, it's not true - a wife cannot, by definition, be a "he".

And the Boulangers? Darn, they were wives of no one...

Clairvoyance Enough said:

I just did a skim-binge through all of the Bach cantatas and in my opinion she wrote all of the stuff I didn't like.

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How did you manage to find something you didn't like in those 60-odd discs?

She did produce more composers for the Bach fold.

starthrower said:

She did produce more composers for the Bach fold.

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Is that mentioned in Richard Dawkins' "The Composing Gene"?

Metairie Road said:

An obvious choice for the first episode - Who killed Mozart?

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Constanze Mozart likely killed him because she couldn't stand anymore his taking credit for all her best works.

Constanze Mozart likely killed him because she couldn't stand anymore his taking credit for all her best works.

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Nah. For my money it was Count Franz von Walsegg who had Mozart bumped off.

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Wait a minute...could it be that the "immortal beloved" wrote Beethoven's greatest works too?

Look, I haven't wanted to confess this, but I can see you are on to me.
I actually wrote most of Bach's music, and all of Beethoven. That tired me out for a while, but Mahler is really me. And Stravinsky.
And by the way, I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.

Steatopygous said:

Look, I haven't wanted to confess this, but I can see you are on to me.
I actually wrote most of Bach's music, and all of Beethoven. That tired me out for a while, but Mahler is really me. And Stravinsky.
And by the way, I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.

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Wow!!!?!!!??!

I'm going to give you a blank check and tell you to write the greatest piece of music ever, with no deadline. There's no way I could possibly end up the worse in this bargain.

Is it true that Bach's wife wrote his greatest works?

No. But she did sign the checks.

The Earl of Oxford wrote Bach's works. A poor uneducated smelly commoner like Bach can't have had knowledge of all that theology, the way a noble man would. The best in the arts must come from the best in breeding, obviously.