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Updated: May 5, 2025
And speaking of types, what shall we say of this cloud of witnesses, bearing the most honoured name in music, the name of Bach? There were more than twenty-five Bachs, who made themselves names as makers of harmony, and they earned themselves almost as great names as family makers; all except Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, who was as lacking in virtue as he was abundant in virtuosity.
One of them, Friedemann, a musician like himself, an organist, a man of thirty, was not without intelligence, and was good at his work, but he was incurably lazy and rather than make the slightest effort to be more than mediocre, he would have died of hunger, though not, perhaps, of thirst.
He had no mercy upon women either: when he was making his jokes he loved to repeat the old saying of some misogynist monk about them, and Christophe enjoyed its bitterness just then more than anybody: "Femina mors animae." In his state of upheaval Christophe found some distraction in talking to Friedemann.
She had borne him seven children, three of whom died; of the sons were Wilhelm Friedemann, the father's favourite, and Karl Philipp Emanuel, whom the world long preferred to Sebastian himself, and whom later times spitefully underrate.
We are also going to revive Charles Martin Loeffler's Rhapsodies for viola, oboe and piano. "I have been for some time making a collection of sonatas a tre, two violins and 'cello delightful old things by Sammartini, Leclair, the Englishman Boyce, Friedemann Bach and others. This is material from which the amateur could derive real enjoyment and profit.
Bach sent his son Friedemann over from Leipzig to beg Handel to come and see him, as he was himself too ill to make the journey, but Handel not unnaturally declined. Towards the end of June he passed through Hanover, and also went to Hamburg, where he engaged a German bass Riemschneider. The opera season began on December 2, with Handel's Lothario, but it had only a moderate success.
He was going to the dogs: he knew it: he was doing it deliberately, with cruel clarity he saw in Friedemann the degraded image of what he was of what he would be one day: and he was passing through a phase of such disheartenedness and disgust that instead of being brought to himself by such a menace, it actually brought him low. He would have gone to the dogs, if he could.
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