As the eldest son and favorite child of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann enjoyed his father's unique resources and training from a young age. Yet as an adult, Friedemann grew increasingly reclusive and eccentric, eventually embarking on decades of aimless unemployment. He passed off his father's music as his own, squandered his father's manuscripts, neglected his art, drank heavily, abandoned his wife and daughters, repaid former employers' kindness with betrayal, and grew so jealous of his two composer brothers, Emanuel and Christian, that he severed ties with them...
When the illustrious Bach family reunites in the afterlife a century later, the shadow of their father and the brothers' old conflicts once again loom over Friedemann, Emanuel, and Christian. Old Bach is bitterly disappointed by what his children have done after his death, and especially furious at his beloved son Friedemann's failures and degradation.
Under the ever more dazzling glory of Old Bach, amid memories of his father's many attempts to control his life, and surrounded by history's condemnations of him and praise for his two younger brothers, Friedemann's torments in life become eternal hellfire. He sinks ever deeper into the mire of madness and depression...
Theme: Conflict within the Bach family.
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