Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Part IV
For quite a while, Bernhard left
no trace; no one could find him—according to an inquiry by the town council,
“not even his father, the Capell Director
in Leipzig.” The distressed parents may
not even have become aware of their lost son’s matriculation in January 1739,
as a law student at Jena University—an attempt on the part of the gifted young
man struggling with obligation and inclination, intimidated son of a powerful
father and uncertain of his own place in life, to turn things around? But only four months later, on May 27,
shortly after his twenty-fourth birthday, Bernhard died “from a hot fever.” Nothing beyond this is known of his illness,
death, or burial.
source: Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: Norton, 2000), p. 400.
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