from the loins of Johann Sebastian . . .

Started by Scion7, March 16, 2012, 03:55:40 PM

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Which Bach son is your favorite?

C.P.E. Bach
9 (52.9%)
J.C. Bach
2 (11.8%)
W.F. Bach
3 (17.6%)
Arthur Bach (just to see if you're awake)
3 (17.6%)

Total Members Voted: 16

Voting closed: January 11, 2014, 02:55:40 PM

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Scion7

March 16, 2012, 03:55:40 PM


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.

When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

mahler10th

#1
March 16, 2012, 04:06:01 PM
lol @ the title of this thread.  Good work!

Luke

#2
March 16, 2012, 04:38:03 PM
WF - the most talented, the most outrageous, the most troubled, the most complex and extreme. A fascinating figure.

kishnevi

#3
March 16, 2012, 05:06:08 PM
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

#4
March 16, 2012, 07:14:17 PM
There never has been,
nor will there ever be,
a working-class Bach!
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

mszczuj

#5
March 16, 2012, 10:29:22 PM
What about Johann Christoph Friedrich?

Scion7

#6
March 17, 2012, 03:53:28 AM
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!!!!!!!!!!  >:D >:(
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

springrite

#7
March 19, 2012, 12:21:54 AM
Based on the limited choices given, I picked CPE. But where is PDQ???
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

kishnevi

#8
March 19, 2012, 07:48:22 AM Last Edit: March 19, 2012, 07:51:23 AM by Jeffrey Smith
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

#9
March 19, 2012, 08:40:59 AM
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

#10
March 19, 2012, 09:59:51 AM
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 .....
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."
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