"The experience is both transcendent and material." Grasshopper Film has debuted an official trailer for the 50th anniversary re-release of the music biopic classic Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, ...

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, entirely played by professional musicians, is a peculiar and striking film. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...

During his 27 years in Leipzig, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a hectic job writing original music for the city’s principal churches and civic functions, as well as teaching singing at the St.

If fame is in the name, then Anna Magdalena Bach is history’s most recognizable, indeed celebrated, musical woman. It wasn’t always so. During the grim poverty of her last decade she had already been ...

Fifty years on, The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, the first feature from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, remains a singular work of musical filmmaking, the first entry and perennial ...

So, the shocking truth is out. Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of the great JS Bach, was more than just the humble copyist of her husband’s music. She actually composed some of it. This is the theory ...

(NEWSER) – A new documentary argues that Anna Magdalena should be known for much more than being Mrs. Johann Sebastian Bach: She may have been the composer of some of her husband's greatest works.

Forensic analysis of some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-loved works proves they were actually written by his wife, an academic has claimed. Martin Jarvis, professor of music at Charles Darwin ...

The last time the name Anna Magdalena appeared in fiction it was attached not to a human character but to an assassin’s rifle. The perpetrators of this crime were themselves a pair of highly paid ...