Composer, born in Leipzig, EC Germany, the ninth son of J S Bach. He studied there at the Thomasschule and at Leipzig University, and became in 1750 Kapellmeister at Bückeburg. He was an industrious but undistinguished church composer.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (June 21, 1732 – January 26, 1795), the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach". He is not to be confused with Bach's first cousin once removed, Johann Christoph Bach.
Born at Leipzig, Germany, he was taught music by his father. While there, Bach collaborated with Herder, who provided the texts for six vocal works;
Bach wrote keyboard sonatas, symphonies, oratorios, liturgical choir pieces and motets, operas and songs. Because of Count Wilhelm's predilection for Italian music, Bach had to adapt his style accordingly, but he retained stylistic traits of the music of his father and of his brother, C. Bach.
He educated his son Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach in music as his own father had, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst went on to become music director to Frederick William II of Prussia. Bach, to Johann Sebastian's other sons, said that P.D.Q. Bach's output was lost in the WWII destruction of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin, where the scores had been on deposit since 1917. Bach's work shows him to have been a transitory figure in the mold of his half-brother C.
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