from the loins of Johann Sebastian . . .

[Scion7]

Which son's music is closest to your heart, and why?

I have to go with C.P.E. Bach - I have much of J.C.'s music and I love it - but Carl's total output is very impressive.

They (?) say Wilhelm was technically the most talented, and I like what I've heard, but his output was comparatively small, and I don't see it better than CPE or JC's, personally.

[mahler10th]

lol @ the title of this thread.  Good work!

[Luke]

WF - the most talented, the most outrageous, the most troubled, the most complex and extreme. A fascinating figure.

[kishnevi]

Since you said we should vote for Arthur if we were awake, and I'm awake, I voted for Arthur.

Seriously, I can't say I have a favorite among the three.  I'm much more familiar with CPE than WF and JC, but that's mostly happenstance;  in fact, I probably have never heard enough of WF and JC's music to have any real opinion on them at all.

[Scion7]

There never has been,
nor will there ever be,
a working-class Bach!

[mszczuj]

What about Johann Christoph Friedrich?

[Scion7]

I don't think he's in the running with his other siblings?

BUT - among the many losses to Germany culturally during WW2 - the loss of museums and historical buildings, rare zoological specimens and Brahms' piano, were many manuscripts of Johann Christoph Friedrich - never published and lost forever.   

F*n National Socialism!!!!!!!!!! 

[springrite]

Based on the limited choices given, I picked CPE. But where is PDQ???

[kishnevi]

Arthur is in SECOND place?
SECOND?!?!?!?
I voted for him half as a joke, half as way of saying "I don't know enough to have a real opinion". 
Perhaps the other two can 'fess up and explain their votes?

[Marc]

Here are the rules:

The people who consider Mozart the greatest: vote for J.C.

The people who consider Haydn the greatest: vote for C.P.E.

The people who consider J.S. Bach the greatest: vote for W.F.

The rest of you just vote for Arthur and rattle your jewelry.

[Scion7]

hmmm... I consider JS Bach a little above Mozart, who in turn is a little above Haydn ...

Yet I picked C.P.E.  . . .

Sits back in chair to ponder the cosmos .....