"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, ...

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 ...

A scene from Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (image courtesy Grasshopper Film) One of the striking features of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The ...

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 ...

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(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.