Friedemann Bach (film)
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| Original title | Friedemann Bach |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Traugott Müller |
| script | Helmut Brandis , Eckart von Naso |
| production | Gustaf Gründgens |
| music | Mark Lothar |
| camera | Walter Pindter |
| cut | Alexandra Anatra |
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Friedemann Bach is a German feature film from 1941 . The film is about the Bach son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and is based on the novel Friedemann Bach by Albert Emil Brachvogel . The film portrays Wilhelm Friedemann Bach as a talented son who tries to step out of the shadow of his father's role model.
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During a house concert by the Bach family, their son Wilhelm Friedemann visits them. He has just given up his job in Halle because he could no longer bear the reprisals there. After helping his sister Frederike to inform his father Johann Sebastian of their engagement to Johann Christoph Altnikol , the family receives a visit from the messenger of the Saxon court. Johann Sebastian is asked to take part in a musical competition against the French composer Louis Marchand . However, since Johann Sebastian did not want to abandon his St. Thomas' Choir , he sent Friedemann to Dresden.
The competition ends victoriously for him, because Marchand takes flight during Friedemann's performance. Friedemann now becomes a sought-after music teacher, whose pupils include the Comtesse Antonia Kollowrat, and receives a commission from the court to compose a ballet. He and the dancer Mariella Fiorini become a couple , also under the influence of Heinrich Graf von Brühl , who has his eye on Antonia. After the success of the ballet, Friedemann is to be appointed court composer. However, when Antonia's ballet met with criticism, Friedemann realized that the court's superficiality did not match its artistic ambitions. Tender bonds develop between Friedemann and Antonia. Friedemann promises to look for a new job and then to catch up with Antonia; his father will help him find a job.
But when Johann Sebastian dies, a series of disappointments begins for Friedemann. Since music in the style of his father is always asked of him, he finally gives an early composition by his father as his own when applying to Braunschweig. The dizziness is exposed, Antonia and Christoph react blankly. Frustrated, Friedemann replies that he no longer wants to be compared to his father, but wants to be Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Embittered, he joins an acting troupe because he is seen there for what he is. When Christoph visits him after years there and tells him that Antonia has been waiting for him in Braunschweig, Friedemann wants to see her again, but she is now married to Heinrich Graf von Brühl. When Friedemann's troupe gave a performance in Dresden, the count arranged for Friedemann and Antonia to meet. Although she still wants to help him, Friedemann lets her feel his bitterness; at the orders of the count, Friedemann has to leave Saxony.
Desperate, Friedemann offers a music dealer a composition by his father. When a customer of the trader Johann Sebastian Bach mocked, Friedemann got into an argument with him and was injured with the dagger, from which he died a little later.
Historical inaccuracies
The competition against Marchand was actually contested by Johann Sebastian Bach and not by his son Wilhelm Friedemann. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was also older than what is portrayed in the film. Heinrich Graf von Brühl was also married to Maria Anna Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1717–1762) and not to Antonia Kolowrat since 1734. Friedemann was also employed first in Dresden (1733–46) as an organist at the Sophienkirche and then in Halle (1746–64) as an organist at the Marienkirche, and not the other way around. So the father Bach (d. 1750) did not live to see his son resigned in Halle. One year after the death of his father, Friedemann married Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi and thus did not hook up with Antonia, who was invented by Brachvogel. In conclusion, it can be said that the film is mainly based on fiction and is not particularly valuable (musically) historically. Still, his character traits are well represented.
Reviews
"In the sentimental artist drama, which is far removed from historical and biographical facts, only the music offers an authentic Bach experience."
"A poor film, despite Gründgens."
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedemann Bach. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Friedemann Bach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Friedemann Bach at filmportal.de