EDITED FOR NEW FINDINGS I read in a biography that he would often take “young girls” up to the choir loft alone, and enjoyed having young female students in private in general.

EDIT it has been debunked, it was misinformation authored by people who wanna destroy culture and used an out of context translation. Me-Too of historical figures. It’s very real now.

He also had far more children than the average person of the time, even compared to people of the same income, and he wasn’t necessarily wealthy from what I understand. And half of those children died.

EDIT Chat GPT: “Johann Sebastian Bach had a notably large family by the standards of his time. He fathered 20 children, though not all survived to adulthood. This was relatively unusual compared to many of his contemporaries, who typically had fewer children.”