In contrast to the endless repetitions of words and phrases favored by J. This most up-to-date style of so-called вЂњgalantвЂќ music sought above all to appear вЂњnaturalвЂќ: it was meant to be flowing, simple, clear, orderly, appealing to the amateur and the connoisseur. But the Berlin opera was by then already a conservative institution at least a decade behind the latest musical fashions being stamped out in Italy. It was here that Christian got his taste for Italian musical theatre. Like all Bach sonвЂ™s, Christian had been trained by his father in his birthplace Leipzig to be an organist the teenager continued these studies in Berlin with the help of a two-manual clavichord with pedal board he inherited from the family collection.Д«erlin had one of EuropeвЂ™s leading opera houses founded by the musician-warrior, Frederick the Great. BachвЂ™s death in 1750, Christian went to live with one of his older half- brothers, Carl Philipp Emanuel, in Berlin. Like so many Protestant musicians who worked in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the sensual-even theatrical-appeal of Catholicism and opera proved difficult to resist: the mighty fortress of Lutheran austerity could not long hold out against the siege of sumptuous decadence. Born in 1735, Johann Christian began his long sojourn in Italy in 1755 and converted to Catholicism luckily the stern father as five years dead.

Only the youngest of Johann Sebastian BachвЂ™s sons departed the German homeland.

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